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Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged continued U.S. support to Israel Thursday even as its military devastated the Gaza Strip with air strikes and prepared for a possible ground invasion.

Mosques full of people hiding for safety are bombed and collapse on top of the civilians inside. Hospitals in which life support and dialysis machines have already been shut down because Israel has cut off the supply of electricity and even the fuel needed for emergency generators are also bombed, w...

Israel has ordered a “complete siege” of Gaza, cutting off water, food, and power to the 2 million civilians living in the tiny enclave. “No water, no food, no electricity will be allowed into Gaza,” the Israeli Defense Ministry has declared.

The mainstream media described the removal this week of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as “historic.” What they failed to note, however, was that it was the predictable result of the path on which the GOP has traveled for quite a long time.

At a minimum hundreds of Israelis and even more Palestinians have already been killed in violence now marked by constant barbaric air raids Israel has unleashed on the territory of Gaza, a small enclave near the southern tip of Israel that is literally an outdoor prison for its 2 million Palestinian...

The many trials of Donald Trump began yesterday here as the ex-president entered the courtroom in what looks like it will be a losing fight to save his crumbling financial empire – one built on lies, fraud, intimidation, and mob-style violence.

The New York Times and other corporate media are putting forward the idea today that Republican House Speaker McCarthy is “sacrificing” himself with the short-term deal he just supported to end a government shutdown.

This Wednesday evening, at the second Republican presidential debate, all seven of Donald Trump’s competitors for the GOP nomination for the presidency could just as well have been talking to the nation from a perch somewhere on Earth 2.

President Joe Biden’s stand alongside United Auto Workers pickets Tuesday, on the 12th day of their strike, reflects a level of presidential backing of labor unions that is a first in U.S. history.

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain said that it is pathetically ironic that Donald Trump would hold a rally for workers tonight as the UAW continues its strike against America's Big Three automakers.