Author: Press Room
The US president said the American military has orders to “completely decimate” the country if Tehran targets him US President Donald Trump has threatened to “destroy” Iran should its government attempt to assassinate him.The US and Israel killed dozens of senior Iranian officials and military commanders during their bombing campaign, including the country’s longtime supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a targeted strike on his compound in Tehran on February 28.“1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its…
The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders published a report this week revealing that the Communist Party of Cuba is systematically imprisoning, harassing, and otherwise intimidating citizens to prevent them from organizing events to mark the fifth anniversary of the July 11, 2021, anti-communist protests. On that day, an estimated 187,000 people took the streets in nearly every city and town in the country to demand an end to the brutal Castro family communist regime and the restoration of a free republic. Protesters clearly chanted “freedom!” and called for the end of the 67-year-old dictatorship, eliciting a violent response from those…
Congress is attempting again to make daylight saving time permanent but also giving states the chance to opt out. The bill, which is called the “Sunshine Protection Act” and ends the twice-annual clock-switching, is set for a full floor vote next week, after the House Energy and Commerce Committee in May voted 48-1 in favor of the bill. “The Sunshine Protection Act would require states that do not exempt themselves before it takes effect to lock their clocks on the time observed between March and November,” the Hill explained. President Donald Trump has vigorously supported the measure, promising to help…
There needs to be more sanctions on Israel and those responsible for what Burnham called “war crimes” need to be held accountable in “international courts”, the man who will all but certainly be Prime Minister in ten days has said. Britain’s response to the war in Gaza has “not been good enough and we need to do better”, recently-elected Labour Member of Parliament Andy Burnham has said as he gets his messaging out ahead of taking control of the Labour Party and the office of Prime Minister later this month. Burnham, who is now just a single signature away from…
Far-left Muslim Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed argued that black and Arab patients are routinely treated differently in the healthcare system because they are more likely to rely on government-funded insurance, which he said pays providers less than private plans. Speaking in support of Medicare for All, El-Sayed said the current reimbursement system effectively places a lower value on care for minority patients, pointing to black children as an example. “Right now in our country, the vast majority of people of color are funded on government health insurance programs that do not reimburse at the same level as private health…
Washington reportedly expects Tehran to accept its terms after talks in Oman on Saturday The US is demanding that Iran publicly declare the strategic Strait of Hormuz fully reopened to navigation and pledge not to attack tankers transiting the waterway, which carries around a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil and LNG trade, several news outlets reported on Friday.The US and Iran have clashed over differing interpretations of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on June 17 regarding the management of the strait. The two countries traded strikes on Wednesday and Thursday after the US and Gulf states blamed Iran…
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) – Greek anti-terrorist police arrested three people Friday in connection with a series of firebomb attacks against conservative party politicians that left one person dead and injured another four, authorities said. The predawn bombings in the northern city of Thessaloniki on July 1 targeted the homes of members of Greece´s governing conservative New Democracy party. The 72-year-old mother of parliamentary candidate Afroditi Nestora was killed after a crude bomb made with camping gas canisters exploded under Nestora´s car, which was parked at the entrance of her apartment building. Nestora herself suffered burns and remains hospitalized, but briefly…
A proposed bill would require community colleges in California to provide access to abortion drugs through campus health centers. Assembly Bill 2540 is an extension of a 2019 law that already requires the dispensation of abortion drugs at University of California and California State University student health centers and went into effect in 2023. The new bill, which would be contingent on state legislature funding, would go into effect in 2029, CalMatters reported. The bill is authored by San Francisco Democrat Assemblymember Catherine Stefani and would apply to approximately 92 campuses statewide. “We are closing a critical gap by ensuring…
Waitrose has reportedly acted after an internal complaint that “not all people who have periods are women” A British supermarket chain has rebranded its ‘feminine care’ section after an internal complaint argued the term was not inclusive of transgender and non-binary customers, The Telegraph reported on Friday.Waitrose will remove sanitary products from its ‘feminine care’ category, saying the label “no longer reflects the product range” because it now also includes incontinence products for men.The change followed a complaint from an employee who said it was “disappointing” that the category implied the products were “exclusively for women and femininity,” arguing that…
They make up fake monsters to protect us from because they themselves are the real monsters. Reading by Tim Foley: Western politics is mostly just empire managers making up fake problems to fight so they don’t have to address the real problems. Can’t stop waging wars or the western empire will collapse. So they make up fake threats from dictators and tyrants and take action to stop them. Can’t stop inflating the military budget and circling the planet with more and more war machinery or the military-industrial complex will stop reaping profits. So they tell you to be afraid of…