COMMON DREAMS: Top News: Israel's Use of 'Small Killer Drones'

 

'Radically Theocratic': Alabama Supreme Court Gives Frozen IVF Embryos Status of Children

"The movement to confer personhood status to IVF embryos is long-standing and one example of the broad-reaching implications of anti-abortion politics," said one expert. "We can expect more cases like this one."
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Ending Reign of GOP Gerrymandering, Evers Approves Fair Maps in Wisconsin

"Wisconsin, for the first time in over a decade, we will not have some of the most gerrymandered maps in America," Evers said.

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UN Experts Demand Investigation Into IDF Abuse of Women and Girls in Gaza

"Those responsible for these apparent crimes must be held accountable and victims and their families are entitled to full redress and justice."

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With $280 Billion in Profits, Oil Giants Are 'Main Winners of the War in Ukraine'

"They have amassed untold wealth off the back of death, destruction, and spiraling energy prices," a Global Witness investigator said of a new analysis.

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Probe Documents Israeli Use of AI-Equipped 'Small Killer Drones' Against Civilians in Gaza

"Israel is intentionally using them to target Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip," said the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

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At ICJ, Lawyer for Palestine Rips US for Defending 'Whatever Offenses' Israel Commits

The U.S. has shown it is willing to go "very far indeed" in disregarding international law to defend the Israeli government, said Paul Reichler during a hearing on the occupation of Palestine.

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Amnesty Condemns Russian Government Attacks on Those Mourning Alexei Navalny

"These callous acts are not only shockingly insensitive, but they are also a flagrant violation of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly."

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Lula Recalls Israel Envoy Amid Escalating Clash Over Genocide Remarks

The Brazilian president's move comes after the leftist leader was declared persona non grata in Israel for comparing its genocidal war on Gaza to Hitler's extermination of Jews.

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Levin to Biden: 'If We Don't Change Course' on Gaza, 'We Can't Win' in November

"Frankly, I don't care what a bunch of talking-headed pundits say" about the push for Michigan Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in the primary. "We're here on the ground in Michigan and they are dead wrong."

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Israeli Assault Leaves Gaza's Nasser Hospital 'Not Functional'

The WHO "was not permitted to enter" the facility in recent days, said the agency chief, warning that "the cost of delays will be paid by patients' lives."

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Shots Fired (and Keep Firing): Gun Violence Epidemic in the United States

The normalization of gun violence has already created a generation of youth who does not know a world absent the fear of mass shootings, schoolyards have become combat zones.

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On the Billionaires Who Would Hunt and Kill Humans for Sport

How much — in our current 21st-century plutocratic climate — can our richest now get away with?

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Comedian SCHOOLS Gun-Nuts Straight to Their Faces

 

Trump Supporter Accidentally Shows Reporter How Deranged MAGA Is

 

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205 PAGES OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY BAPTIST MINISTERS 700 BAPTISTS MINISTERS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE

 

205 PAGES OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY BAPTIST PASTORS

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Alexei Navalny death latest: Putin critic’s ‘bruised body seen in morgue’ as family demands it is returned

 

Alexei Navalny death latest: Putin critic’s ‘bruised body seen in morgue’ as family demands it is returned

Alexei Navalny’s team, as well as the Russian authorities, have not confirmed the whereabouts of his body

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Alexei Navalny death latest: Putin critic’s wife says Kremlin ‘waiting for novichok poison’ to leave his body

Yulia Navalnaya accuses Vladimir Putin of murdering husband as she vows to reveal names of killers

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Alexei Navalny’s wife has accused the Kremlin of waiting for traces of the Novichok nerve agent to disappear from his body as she vowed to reveal the names of his killers.

In a video message on Monday, Yulia Navalnaya said: "Vladimir Putin killed my husband... We know exactly why Putin killed Alexei three days ago. We will tell you about it soon.”

It comes as the bruised body of the Putin critic is believed to have been delivered to a morgue at the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital, an anonymous experienced paramedic told the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe on Sunday.

However, Mr Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, and his lawyers were blocked from accessing the morgue on Monday morning, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Meanwhile, the widow of Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 after being poisoned in London with Polonium 210, told Sky News the Russian President had “killed the most prominent politician and the hope of a new Russia” as she called for support from the West for critics of the “monster” Putin.

Pictured: Navalnaya in Brussels

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, speaks with Belgium's foreign minister Hadja Lahbib

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Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya takes part in a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels

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Estonian president: NATO and EU can’t carry on like it’s peacetime

 

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Democracy itself is a threat to Russia’s current regime, which means every democratic state poses a threat to it. Thus, it is fruitless to base our strategies on an expectation that fundamental change will happen in Russia soon.

This is a decisive moment for our generation. If we fail to show determination, we will be seen as weak. And as history has shown, weakness doesn’t lead to peace.

Alliances are what democracies do best. Authoritarian regimes have never been effective in maintaining them because for autocrats, cooperation is based only on short-term needs — not values. The democratic world does it better, it’s our strength.

And now it’s time to put that strength to good use. We need to make sure our values — freedom, democracy, welfare and security — will be guaranteed for the transatlantic community for generations to come.

Ukraine is capable of winning this war. It has already been proving for a decade now that a smaller country can resist a bigger one, if its friends assist. Estonia has calculated that if every European country contributes just 0.25 percent of its GDP toward Ukraine in the coming years, Ukraine will be victorious. Then, we can call Russia’s bluff that it can maintain this fight for much longer.

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Estonian president: NATO and EU can’t carry on like it’s peacetime

Russia’s invasion came as no surprise to us. Russia seizes anything left unguarded. The

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Republicans LOSE THEIR MINDS over prosecutor's announcement

 

No Lie podcast episode 196: The media and Republicans lose their minds over what one rightwing prosecutor said about Joe Biden. Merrick Garland finding an avowed Republican to handle an investigation into a Democratic president during an election year defies logic. We need to stop trying to WIN OVER Republicans with displays of goodwill. It's never going to happen.

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The Hill

Michael Cohen suggests Trump’s mounting legal fees make him ‘thoroughly compromised’: ‘He is for sale’

By Sarah Fortinsky

Michael Cohen — who long served as former President Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer — warned Sunday of the potential risk of sending Trump back to the White House with mounting legal fees and financial liabilities.

“We need to be very careful about him as a potential president because he is for sale,” Cohen, now an outspoken critic of the former president, said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday.

“He needs to figure out where he is going to raise $500-plus million over a short period of time,” Cohen continued.

Cohen’s warning comes as Trump, the leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate, was found liable Friday for nearly $355 million in penalties in a civil fraud case in New York that delivered a severe blow to his family business.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued Trump and his business in 2022, alleging the former president falsely altered his net worth on key financial statements to receive tax and insurance benefits. James also alleged that Trump sometimes adjusted his assets’ value to obtain more favorable loans and deals, which the state points to as evidence of fraud.

Last month, a federal jury in a different civil case ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll, adding to the $5 million verdict in an earlier trial that found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her in separate comments.

When MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend suggested Trump “is open to the highest bidder at this point because the tab keeps being run up,” floating “the Saudis, the Russians,” as options, Cohen agreed.

“Thoroughly compromised, yes,” Cohen said.

Trump was also indicted in four criminal cases, two of which were brought by special counsel Jack Smith, with another each in Georgia and New York. The New York hush money case will be the first to go to trial, and jury selection is slated to start next month. Cohen has been a witness in that case.