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6 days ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
The die is cast. President Donald Trump has deployed the military against protesters in his drive for authoritarian control. It started with Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard, deploying 2,000 troops to Los Angeles, to quell growing protests against his attempted mass deportations and against the wishes of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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1 week ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
President Donald Trump issued an extensive travel ban, expanding one of the most controversial policies of his first term, the “Muslim ban.” Back then, Trump’s travel ban was challenged in court but ultimately, in 2018, its third scaled-down version was permitted by the Supreme Court. This followed a White House meeting in which Trump referred […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: June 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM PDT
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2 weeks ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
“Six-hundred days on, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is at its darkest point yet,” reads the latest statement by the U.N.’s Humanitarian Country Team of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which coordinates Palestinian aid. Israel has kept Gaza under a near-total siege for three months, preventing food, medicine, fuel and clean water from reaching Gaza’s more than 2 million residents.
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3 weeks ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
Columbia University held graduation recently, with thousands receiving their degrees. Some students were missing, though, casting a pall over the proceedings and provoking protests, evidence of ongoing Palestinian solidarity among Columbia’s students, faculty and staff despite the university’s efforts to crush it. Mohsen Mahdawi was there. As he ascended the stage, he thrust his arms high, his hands giving peace signs to cheers and a standing ovation from his classmates.
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1 month ago | 
thedailyreview.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanColumbia University held graduation this week, with thousands receiving their degrees. Some students were missing, though, casting a pall over the proceedings and provoking protests, evidence of ongoing Palestinian solidarity among Columbia’s students, faculty and staff despite the university’s efforts to crush it. kAm|@9D6? |2952H: H2D E96C6] pD 96 2D46?565 E96 DE286[ 96 E9CFDE 9:D 2C>D 9:89[ 9:D 92?5D 8:G:?8 A6246 D:8?D E@ 4966CD 2?5 2 DE2?5:?8 @G2E:@?
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1 month ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
The march to authoritarianism in the U.S. accelerated on May 9 with another arrest of an elected official by the Trump administration. Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, the largest city in New Jersey, had accompanied a Congressional delegation to Delaney Hall, a private prison run by GEO Corporation under contract to ICE, Immigration and Customs […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: May 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM PDT
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1 month ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
On May 3, 2024, Roger Fortson was on a video call with his girlfriend when a knock came at his door. Fortson, a 23-year-old Black man, was a Senior Airman in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Florida. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Eddie Duran had responded to a domestic disturbance call at the apartment complex. […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: May 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM PDT
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2 months ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
April 15 was tax day in the United States, when most of us — the wealthiest excepted — pay our share of taxes to fund the government. This includes three key pillars of the social safety net: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. These three, like almost every federal government department, are being gutted by President Trump and his main funder, a man often called “the co-president,” billionaire Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
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2 months ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
In March 2023, Donald Trump addressed CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference: “In 2016 I declared, I am your voice. Today, I add I am your warrior. I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”Since taking office, Trump has kept up his promise to unleash retribution, like his promised mass deportations and his constant demonization of immigrants. Take, for example, the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who left El Salvador at the age of 16.
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2 months ago | 
times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces.”These words, written by 23-year-old Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, who worked for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, were posted online by friends after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on March 24. That same day, Hossam posted on Instagram that Mohammed Mansour, a reporter for Palestine Today TV, was killed by an Israeli airstrike. An hour later, Hossam himself was killed.
