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WEEK IN REVIEW: From 'Never Again for Anyone' to 'Madness in the Name of Freedom'

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The Week in Review

October 27, 2023

'Never Again for Anyone': Jewish Protesters Demanding Gaza Cease-Fire Arrested in Grand Central Station

"While Shabbat is typically a day of rest, we cannot afford to rest while genocide is unfolding in our names," said one rabbi.

October 27, 2023

With 7,300+ Gazans Dead, Israeli PM Adviser Says 'Tonight We Are Starting Payback'

One critic declared that "a horrific slaughter is happening in plain sight, while the world watches and the U.S. shamelessly aids and abets it!"

October 26, 2023

'Madness in the Name of Freedom,' Says Stephen King After Maine Gun Massacre

The author and one of the state's most famous residents said the culprit is clear: "It’s the rapid-fire killing machines, people.... Stop electing apologists for murder."

October 25, 2023

New GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson Has Proposed Trillions in Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

"Now that Johnson is speaker, he will do what the Republicans never stop doing—everything in their power to cut our Social Security and Medicare, by hook, crook, or commission."

October 25, 2023

'An Absolute Outrage': Israel to Deny Visas to UN Officials Over Secretary-General's Gaza Remarks

Human rights advocates called on the U.S., U.K., and other European countries to take action against Israel's "intimidation" tactic.

October 24, 2023

IEA Report Makes Clear the Urgent Need to 'Rapidly Replace and Phase Out All Fossil Fuels'

The International Energy Agency warned that while renewable energy use is surging, fossil fuel production worldwide remains "far too high" to prevent catastrophic warming.

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Opinion

Sink, Sank, Sunk: One Year in and Musk's Twitter Is Down the Drain

In Musk’s distorted world view, his critics are to blame for Twitter’s sinking fortunes. But if there's anyone to blame, just look at the man holding... the sink.

Tim Karr

Eulogy for My Father, Daniel Ellsberg

In the final days, his joy and gratitude were based on the hope that others would carry on the effort for a better, more peaceful future. I pray that his joy may be justified.

Robert Ellsberg

The US Supreme Court's Incoherent, Idiotic, and Racist Rulings on Gerrymandering

The Court may be ready to scuttle remaining portions of the Voting Rights Act by giving states the ability to racially gerrymander by claiming that they’re only engaging in partisan gerrymandering. It's outrageous.

Miles Mogulescu

With Shutdown Averted, Is Social Security Safe? Nope!

More tax giveaways to the rich simply mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more justification for taking a meat cleaver to programs that serve and protect ordinary Americans.

James Roosevelt Jr.,Henry Scott Wallace,June Hopkins,Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall

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Who Flew on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Lolita Express' Plane? Full List of People Named

Dec 01, 2021

By Emma Nolan

Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and more—these are just some of the high-profile figures who allegedly flew in convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's notorious "Lolita Express" private jet.

Epstein's plane was derisively called the "Lolita Express" by certain media outlets following allegations that it was used to fly underage girls to some of the late financier's properties.

The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is currently ongoing in Manhattan, New York and the personal pilot of Jeffrey Epstein has given testimony.

For nearly 30 years, Larry Visoski (Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr.) piloted the Boeing 727 that reportedly hosted a spate of famous names which include Britain's Prince Andrew and numerous U.S. senators.

For nearly 30 years, Larry Visoski (Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr.) piloted the Boeing 727 that reportedly hosted a spate of famous names which include Britain's Prince Andrew and numerous U.S. senators.

Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Kevin Spacey, BillClinton

Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Kevin Spacey and Bill Clinton. Jeffrey Epstein's pilot named several famous people who he said had traveled aboard the late financier's jet.GETTY IMAGES

Who Flew on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Lolita Express' Plane?

Donald J. Trump
Bill Clinton
Kevin Spacey
Chris Tucker
Bill Gates
Prince Andrew
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Violinist Itzhak Perlman
U.S. Sen. John Glenn
Former Senate majority leader George Mitchell

All names have been reported in Associated Press and CNN.

During cross-examination, Visoski also gave details about flying to Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little St. James.

"It was a regular destination," Visoski told the court.

The pilot was asked if he ever saw sex acts with underage females, to which he replied: "Absolutely not."

Maxwell, a former British socialite who was arrested in 2020, is being tried on multiple felony counts which include trafficking underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse.

The 59-year-old is accused of grooming underage girls and offering them lavish trips and gifts in exchange for exploiting them. She has also been accused of participating in the abuse in some cases.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Trial, Jeffrey Epstein, Sexual Abuse — In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell enters the courtroom escorted by U.S. Marshalls at the start of her trial, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, in New York. Two years after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide behind bars, a jury is set to be picked Monday in New York City to determine a central question in the long-running sex trafficking case: Was his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's puppet or accomplice?ELIZABETH WILLIAMS/AP PHOTO

Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges against her.

In court on Tuesday, a woman using the pseudonym "Jane," testified that Maxwell was sometimes present when the witness had sexual interactions with Epstein when she was aged 14.

Virginia Giuffre, who is not a witness in this trial, has alleged that she was abused by Prince Andrew and has claimed that Maxwell flew her around the world when she was 17 and 18 for sexual encounters with billionaires, politicians, royals and heads of state.