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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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Farm Bill Stalls as SNAP Fight Continues
The fight over federal food aid continued last week as the Senate farm bill got stuck over Supplemental Assistance Program (SNAP) cost-sharing requirements. Senate Democrats rejected Republicans’ proposed one-year delay in state cost-sharing requirements for SNAP. This is after HR1 cut SNAP spending by roughly $187 billion in 2025 and forced states with higher payment-error rates to begin paying part of SNAP benefit costs.
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Governor Shapiro’s Decision on Data Centers
Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania has signed an executive order directing the Department of Environmental Protection to limit new data center projects. He directed the department to only review permit applications for data centers if developers have made a commitment to meeting Responsible Infrastructure Development Requirements and have received local approval before permit applications for new data center projects can be reviewed.
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Much Media Coverage Gets DSA Organizing Wrong
In an article for FAIR, Raina Lipsitz assesses how corporate media outlets have depicted DSA organizing as a sinister conspiracy.
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Assessing the State Department’s Claims About the Monroe Doctrine
The U.S. State Department has shamelessly published a video celebrating U.S. ‘dominance’ of the Western Hemisphere under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, complete with falsified history and grotesque omissions.
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