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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Jimmy Liggins

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features r&b guitarist Jimmy Liggins. Enjoy!

^{Jimmy Liggins - Ada From Decatur}

“Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence — words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security — there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.” 

--  Howard Zinn

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News and Opinion

Worth a click and a full read:

Bush, Obama, and Biden Gave Trump the Tools for Repression

The U.S. has a long history of racist oppression, repression of revolutionary movements, violations of human rights, and the commission of war crimes. Presidents held in higher regard than Trump have gone largely unscathed from the criticisms that are once again being heaped upon him. It is important that their crimes not be forgotten. Trump must not be thought of as being exceptionally bad. The list of U.S. horrors can begin at the nation’s founding, but for brevity’s sake this essay will cover only some of the wrongdoing committed by the last four presidential administrations, those of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. ...

The Bush administration used Guantanamo Bay to imprison 780 men and minor children since 2001. At its peak, 680 prisoners were held there in 2003. Most of them were captured not because they engaged in any attack on the United States, but because of a $5,000 bounty paid for their capture. The Bush administration created the designation of “enemy combatant” which held that those persons had no legal right to trial by jury but instead were to be tried by military tribunals. After being initially assured that only the “worst of the worst” were being held at Guantanamo now only 15 remain. The vast majority were allowed to leave over the last 20 years.. But before they were allowed to go free they were subjected to torture by water boarding and hunger strikers were force fed by methods that constitute torture . Nine of them died in captivity, four allegedly by suicide but under suspicious circumstances , including evidence that was missing or tampered with. Even an army chaplain, James Yee, was arrested and accused of espionage before ultimately being discharged and freed.

In 2008 Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency promising to close Guantanamo and to provide civilian trials for detainees. Not only did neither of those things happen, but Obama added his own crimes to the ledger of disgraceful actions taken by U.S. presidents. The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan continued and Obama had his own war of aggression and choice against Libya in 2011. ... Obama was making his case for a 2012 re-election campaign by destroying the Libyan state and attempting the same thing against Syria. Known as Operation Timber Sycamore , Obama and his NATO partners in crime began using jihadists to bring down Syria. That plot didn’t succeed until 2024, after his predecessors Trump and Biden weakened Syria in a classic CIA regime change operation which put terrorists in charge of that country which is now divided by Israel and Turkey. ...

Obama claimed the authority to kill U.S. citizens and he did just that to Anwar Al-Awlaki and his teenaged son, Abudurrahman Al-Awlaki. Both were killed by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen. The elder Awlaki’s father tried to save his family by going to court. But not only did a federal judge rule that the U.S. government had the right to kill Nasser Al-Awlaki’s son but another judge also dismissed a lawsuit after his son and grandson were killed on Barack Obama’s orders. Donald Trump continued bombings and drone strikes in Syria and in Afghanistan and in Somalia, just like his predecessors had done. In 2020 he assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and afterward Joe Biden and all the other candidates for the Democratic Party nomination supported his act.

Joe Biden’s place on this list of infamy is most starkly revealed by his aiding and abetting of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. From October 8, 2023 until he left office in January 2025, he gave Israel everything it wanted. Every request for financial and military aid was approved. It should also be mentioned that this support was bipartisan as democrats and republicans alike voted to continue the war crime. At least 200,000 people were killed on Joe Biden’s watch. ...

All of these presidents have one thing in common, a population that has normalized criminality when it is committed by the state. There may be outrage expressed over the actions of one president but acquiescence over another’s human rights abuses. It seems that protests are often popularity contests, as well loved figures are given a pass while others are scorned. We don’t just need better presidents. We need a more mature and ethical population. It seems that the propaganda which every administration uses is effective in giving consent to death and destruction.

Children in school shelter among 25 killed in wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza

At least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, including 11 in the bombing of a school turned shelter, the strip’s civil defence agency said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory grinds on despite a new ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators.

Intense Israeli bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. The strike ignited a huge fire that claimed most of the casualties, said a civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal.

The Qatari network Al Jazeera and Palestinian media broadcast footage of several bodies wrapped in white shrouds at al-Shifa hospital’s morgue, and women weeping over the body of a child.

“We were sleeping and suddenly something exploded, we started looking and found the whole school on fire, the tents here and there were on fire, everything was on fire,” a witness, Umm Mohammed al-Hwaiti, told Reuters.

“People were shouting and men were carrying people, charred [people], charred children, and were walking and saying ‘dear God, dear God, we have no one but you’. What can we say? Dear God, only,” she said.

Unusually, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not comment on the school attack. Israeli officials say fighters from Hamas and allied factions hide behind civilian infrastructure, claims that the Palestinian militant group denies.

COL. Douglas Macgregor : Will Netanyahu Attack Iran?

Spanish deputy PM’s party calls for cancellation of Israeli arms order

The leftwing junior partners in Spain’s socialist-led coalition government have called on the interior ministry to cancel a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company, claiming the deal breaches coalition agreements and undermines efforts to hold Israel to account over its actions in Gaza. Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, questioning whether it is following international humanitarian law and calling the number of Palestinian deaths “truly unbearable”.

In October last year, the interior ministry announced it had cancelled the purchase of 15.3m bullets from an Israeli company because of the government’s “commitment to neither buying weapons from, nor selling weapons to, the state of Israel following the outbreak of armed conflict in Gaza”. But it emerged on Wednesday that the purchase of the 9mm ammunition, which had been ordered on behalf of the Guardia Civil police force, was going ahead because the interior ministry had decided the contract was too far advanced and too expensive to cancel.

The apparent U-turn prompted an angry response from the Sumar platform, which was founded by Yolanda Díaz, Spain’s labour minister and one of the country’s three deputy prime ministers. The platform described the contract as a “flagrant breach” of the commitments made within the government on suspending the buying of weapons from Israel and demanded its immediate cancellation. It also called on the socialist interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to appear before MPs to explain what had happened.

Prof. John Mearsheimer : Can Ukraine and Israel Embrace Peace?

Judge orders bail hearing for detained student Mohsen Mahdawi next week

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and student at Columbia University who was detained by the Trump administration on 14 April, will have a hearing next week on his request for release on bail, a federal judge decided on Wednesday.

Judge Geoffrey W Crawford extended a temporary restraining order issued by a separate judge last week to keep Mahdawi in Vermont. Immigration authorities have sent other foreign students arrested for their pro-Palestinian views to detention centers in Louisiana and Texas, jurisdictions typically overseen by more conservative judges.

“I don’t want Mr Mahdawi to be whisked away to another state,” Crawford said, adding later: “If he’s moved to another state, it creates a second tier of issues. He’s a Vermont resident, he was arrested in Vermont.”

Mahdawi, who was prominent in the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last spring, was arrested by Ice in Colchester, Vermont, while he was attending a naturalization interview, his lawyer said in a statement to the Guardian. The Trump administration is seeking to deport him on the grounds that his presence in the US could “potentially undermine” the Middle East peace process, part of a dramatic crackdown on political speech that began with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in early March.

After Wednesday’s hearing in Vermont, Mahdawi said in a statement from Ice detention via his lawyers: “I don’t want people to lose hope. Stay positive and believe in the inevitability of justice. This hearing is part of the democratic system as it prevents a tyrant from having unchecked power. Keep the hope alive. I will see you under the sun.”

Trump accuses Zelenskyy of jeopardising imminent peace deal

Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of jeopardising what he claimed was an imminent peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, as he gave the clearest hint yet that the US would be willing to formally recognise Russia’s seizure of Crimea as part of any agreement. The US president claimed a deal to end the war – largely negotiated between Washington and Moscow – was close, while the vice-president, JD Vance, said the agreement would include a proposal to freeze the conflict roughly along the current frontlines.

It was unclear how Ukraine and its European allies, who were meeting in London on Wednesday, would respond to a plan largely constructed in their absence. Zelenskyy countered by proposing a simple ceasefire without conditions on both sides, though this did not immediately gain any traction from the US. But after a day of speculation and partial disclosure of the terms of the peace proposal, Trump attacked his Ukrainian counterpart for complaining that Kyiv was unwilling to cede Crimea to Russia – the most contentious aspect of the tentative agreement that has leaked so far. ...

Reports that Washington would be willing to recognise Crimea under Russian control have been circulating for a couple of days. That prompted Zelenskyy to say on Tuesday that “Ukraine will not recognise the occupation of Crimea”, arguing that doing so it would be incompatible with the country’s constitution. Responding to a report of his comments, Trump wrote on Wednesday that “this statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia” and accused the Ukrainian leader of making “inflammatory statements” that “makes it so difficult to settle this War”.

Trump signs orders cracking down on diversity and inclusion at US universities

Donald Trump signed executive orders on Wednesday targeting universities as his administration seeks to reshape higher-education institutions and continues to crack down on diversity and inclusion efforts. The actions address foreign gifts to universities, directing the federal government to “enforce laws on the books” related to the disclosure of large donations, and college accreditation, which the president has referred to as his “secret weapon” to upend US universities. While reading the orders to Trump, the White House staff secretary Will Scharf said that the third-party groups that accredit universities have relied on “woke ideology” rather than merit. ...

The president has referred to accreditation as a “secret weapon” in his fight against universities. “I will fire the radical-left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics,” he said last summer. “We will then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once for all.”

According to a statement from the White House, the order directs Linda McMahon, the education secretary, to hold accreditors accountable with “denial, monitoring, suspension, or termination of accreditation recognition, for accreditors’ poor performance or violations of federal civil rights law”. It also orders administration officials to investigate “unlawful discrimination” in higher education.

The White House alleges accreditors have imposed “discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based standards”, which it describes as a violation of federal law and an abuse of their authority.

EU Rages, Backs Zelensky, NO To Kellogg Plan, Wants Crimea In Ukraine, Kiev In NATO; Trump Dithers

Boeing hopes to find new buyers for up to 50 planes returned by China

Boeing will try to divert as many as 50 planes ordered by Chinese airlines to customers elsewhere after steep tariffs prompted by Donald Trump’s trade war. The US manufacturer said it was confident it could find other buyers for the planes, but said it was lobbying Trump personally to resolve an “unfortunate situation”.

Two Boeing jets have returned to the US from China, with another on the way, after the imposition of steep 125% tariffs on American imports. China imposed the levies in retaliation to the White House’s 145% rate that threatens to significantly slow down the world economy.

Kelly Ortberg, Boeing’s chief executive, said he hoped “over time these tariffs can be resolved”, in a call with investors on Wednesday. He was speaking after the company announced that losses for the first quarter of 2025 had narrowed to $31m (£23.4m), compared with $355m a year earlier.

He added that Boeing and Airbus, its main rival, would favour a “non-tariff environment”, in stark contrast to Trump, who believes – contrary to the overwhelming consensus of economists – that tariffs will restore US manufacturing to global dominance.

“Ultimate Grifter”: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs & Take Credit for Saving Economy

A dozen US states sue to stop Trump’s ‘reckless and insane’ tariff policy

A dozen states sued the Trump administration in the US court of international trade in New York on Wednesday to stop its tariff policy, saying it is unlawful and has brought chaos to the American economy. The lawsuit said the policy put in place by Donald Trump has been subject to his “whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority”.

It challenged the US president’s claim that he could arbitrarily impose tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The suit asks the court to declare the tariffs to be illegal, and to block government agencies and its officers from enforcing them. ...

The states listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit were Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Vermont. In a release, the Arizona attorney general, Kris Mayes, called Trump’s tariff scheme “insane”. She said it was “not only economically reckless – it is illegal”. ...

The lawsuit maintained that only Congress has the power to impose tariffs and that the president can only invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act when an emergency presents an “unusual and extraordinary threat” from abroad. “By claiming the authority to impose immense and ever-changing tariffs on whatever goods entering the United States he chooses, for whatever reason he finds convenient to declare an emergency, the president has upended the constitutional order and brought chaos to the American economy,” the lawsuit said.

Stock markets rise as Trump backtracks on high China tariffs and firing Fed chair

Stock markets have risen around the world after Donald Trump said his tariffs on China would come down “substantially” and he had “no intention” of firing the chair of the US central bank, Jerome Powell. ... Overnight in Asia, Japan’s Nikkei rose by nearly 2%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 2.4% and the South Korean Kospi gained 1.6%. The rally spread to Europe in early trading on Wednesday, with the UK’s FTSE 100 index up 1.6%, while the Italian FTSE MIB rose by 1.1%. Germany’s Dax gained 2.6% and France’s Cac 2.1%.

Meanwhile, US stocks opened on a high Wednesday morning, with the Dow rallying over 800 points, and the Nasdaq Composite up over 3%. The rally stalled in the afternoon but all the major stock markets managed to end the day higher. ... The US dollar, which hit a three-year low on Tuesday before recovering, rose by 0.25% against a basket of major currencies. ...

Meanwhile, gold, which is traditionally viewed by investors as a safe haven asset during volatile periods, retreated from the new high of $3,500 (£2,620) an ounce it hit on Tuesday, to trade at about $3,307.

Federal judge accuses White House of ‘bad faith’ in Kilmar Ábrego García case

The federal court that has found itself in a pitched battle with the executive branch over the summary removal of Salvadorian Kilmar Ábrego García despite a previous order against deportation has now accused the Trump administration of “bad faith” in the case – but received fresh pushback within hours. US district judge Paula Xinis had given the Trump administration until 6pm ET on Wednesday to provide details to support its claims that it does not have to comply with orders to return the man to the US, where he was living and working in Baltimore, because of special privilege.

Xinis castigated the administration late on Tuesday saying it is ignoring court orders and obstructing the legal process. “For weeks, defendants have sought refuge behind vague and unsubstantiated assertions of privilege, using them as a shield to obstruct discovery and evade compliance with this court’s orders,” Xinis wrote. “Defendants have known, at least since last week, that this court requires specific legal and factual showings to support any claim of privilege. Yet they have continued to rely on boilerplate assertions. That ends now,” she added, giving the new deadline for information.

However, late on Wednesday morning, the Trump administration took fresh counter steps against the federal judge’s orders to produce information about the steps it has taken, if any, to return Ábrego García to the US after he was, by the government’s admission, mistakenly removed to El Salvador without even a court hearing.

Drew Ensign, a deputy assistant attorney general, filed a sealed motion asking for a stay of the order to provide sworn testimony and documents about efforts to return the man, who was living and working in Baltimore and subject to court protection against deportation to his native El Salvador before he was arrested by the immigration authorities last month and detained then removed. The White House asked Xinis for a stay of seven days of her order and was also requesting relief from providing daily status updates on Ábrego García’s status and any efforts to get him back to the US.

The US supreme court ordered the Trump administration nearly two weeks ago to facilitate Ábrego García’s return to the US from a notorious Salvadorian prison, rejecting the White House’s claim that it couldn’t retrieve him despite the administration having admitted previously in court that it had sent him out of the country by mistake.

ICE CAUGHT LYING On US Citizen Detention

Trump cuts federal grants to plantation museum focused on reality of slavery

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS ) has terminated two grants for Black history and culture that were awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a former plantation in Louisiana that focuses on the truths of slavery and the experiences of people who were enslaved. IMLS provides resources and support to libraries, archives and museums in all 50 states and territories.

The termination comes as the Trump administration has both gutted federal funding aimed at arts and cultural institutions and has pushed to end state and federal initiatives in support of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Recently, federal webpages that included references to thousands of figures, including Harriet Tubman, Indigenous codetalkers, the US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers, were either removed outright or scrubbed to exclude references to the aforementioned people. After public outcry, some of these pages were restored.

The Whitney Plantation already received one of the grants this year, but the other, which was to help fund an exhibit about how enslaved people resisted on plantations, was set to be completed in June this year. Without the funding, the Whitney stands to lose about $55,000. The exhibit on resistance to slavery, on which the museum had worked for three years, was due to open in January 2026. The Whitney Plantation and its grant partners, the University of New Orleans and a research project called Freedom on the Move, have until 12 May to appeal the grant termination, according to an IMLS document obtained by Verite News. ...

When the Whitney Plantation opened in 2014 as a museum, it was the first plantation in the country dedicated to memorializing slavery and honoring enslaved people – most plantations in the United States, often used as sites for weddings or other lighthearted forms of tourism, instead erase the history of slavery. The Whitney is situated on a historical sugar, indigo and rice plantation, which was in operation for over two centuries, from 1752 until 1975. More than a dozen historical structures, many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, are preserved at the museum.

WEF Lizard Person Replaces Klaus Schwab!

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Bernie Senate Pick UNLOADS On AIPAC Dems

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More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record

The world’s coral reefs have been pushed into “uncharted territory” by the worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet’s reefs, scientists have warned. Reefs in at least 82 countries and territories have been exposed to enough heat to turn corals white since the global event started in January 2023, the latest data from the US government’s Coral Reef Watch shows.

Coral reefs are known as the rainforests of the sea because of their high concentration of biodiversity that supports about a third of all marine species and a billion people. But record high ocean temperatures have spread like an underwater wildfire over corals across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, damaging and killing countless corals.

The 84% of reefs exposed to bleaching-level heat in this ongoing fourth event compares with 68% during the third event, which lasted from 2014 to 2017, 37% in 2010 and 21% in the first event in 1998.

Even reefs considered by scientists to be refuges from the ocean’s rising levels of heat have been bleached, Dr Derek Manzello, the director of Coral Reef Watch, said. “The fact that so many reef areas have been impacted, including purported thermal refugia like Raja Ampat and the Gulf of Eilat, suggests that ocean warming has reached a level where there is no longer any safe harbour from coral bleaching and its ramifications,” he said.

‘An outlier’: why does the US rank low on demands for climate action?

Over the last 12 months, the United States has endured a rash of disasters worsened by the climate crisis: devastating wildfires in southern California, a catastrophic hurricane in western North Carolina, and deadly heatwaves across the country. Americans increasingly believe global heating is a serious threat that will affect them personally – and 74% want to see more climate action. Yet while that sounds high, it is still lower than most other countries around the world. What explains this disparity?

New insights into this question have emerged from recent research that examines attitudes toward the climate crisis across the world and in the US specifically. A report published by Nature Climate Change last year found 89% of the world’s population wanted to see more climate action, and 69% even said they would be willing to contribute 1% of their personal income to the cause.

But on all counts, the United States – the world’s largest economy and its second largest carbon polluter – ranked among the lowest in terms of willingness to contribute, demand for action and belief that others would contribute. “The climate debate in the US was always very specific in international comparison,” said Peter Andre, a behavioral economist at Safe and the Goethe University Frankfurt and a coauthor of the Nature report. He pointed to research that has found “it was always more partisan, the media landscape is structured differently than in many European countries, and many [climate misinformation campaigns] also originated in the US.”

Andre and his colleagues reviewed data from 130,000 people in 125 countries and found that respondents’ willingness to contribute part of their income to the fight against climate change was highest in poorer countries. In Myanmar, which has a GDP of $1,233 per capita, 93% of respondents’ said they would contribute; in the United States, where incomes are about 70 times higher, only 48% did.

“One very plausible hypothesis is that, of course, the extent that you are exposed to climate risk makes you more willing to act against it. The richer you are, the easier it is for you to adapt,” Andre said. “The other story is resistance to change. Current economies are run on fossil fuels, so the bigger the economy, the more things need to change in order to become climate neutral.”

Nearly half of Americans breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants

Almost half of Americans are breathing in dangerous levels of air pollutants, a new report shows, a rise compared with a year ago and likely to further increase in coming years thanks to the climate crisis and the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental rollbacks. Just over 156 million people live in neighborhoods with unhealthy levels of soot or smog – a 16% rise compared with last year and the highest number in a decade, according to the American Lung Association (ALA) annual state of the air report.

Soot and smog can cause premature death and increase the risk of an array of serious medical conditions such as asthma attacks, heart attacks and strokes, preterm births and impaired cognitive functioning in later life. Particle pollution also increases the risk of lung cancer. Both pollutants are made worse by heat waves and wildfires – extreme weather events getting more intense and widespread due to human-made global heating.

Every year, the ALA grades exposure to unhealthy levels of ground-level smog (ozone pollution), and year-round and short-term spikes in soot (fine particle pollution/PM2.5) over a three-year period (2021 to 2023). Its latest analysis found that almost 43m people live in areas with failing grades for all three measures. A person of color is more than twice as likely as a white American to live in a neighborhood with unhealthy levels of smog and soot. But Latino Americans are the most impacted, and three times more likely to be breathing in both toxic air pollutants.

PM2.5 or soot comes from wildfires, wood-burning stoves, coal-fired power plants and diesel engines among other industrial sources – and can be deadly. The new report includes data from summer 2023, when smoke from wildfires across Canada lit up the sky and engulfed midwestern and eastern states in soot. Ozone or smog is a potent respiratory irritant likened to causing sunburn of the lungs. After years of progress on cleaning up ozone, some communities are seeing the worst smog in years.

The climate crisis-driven extreme heat and wildfires contributed to the increase in ozone levels for many parts of the country, most notably in central states from Minnesota to Texas. Warmer temperatures increase the risk of ozone forming and makes it harder to clean up. ... Only two cities, Bangor, Maine, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, were ranked as clean cities with no spikes in smog or soot, reflecting an overall worsening of air quality across the country, the report found.

New Jersey wildfire forces evacuations and reaches closed nuclear power plant

A fast-moving wildfire burning in New Jersey forced thousands of people to temporarily evacuate on Tuesday, as officials warned the blaze could become the largest in the state in about 20 years. Flames from the Jones Road wildfire in Ocean county sparked several small blazes near a decommissioned Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, state officials said.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the fire had burned 12,000 acres and was 35% contained, according to the New Jersey forest fire service.

Initially Garden State Parkway, one of New Jersey’s busiest highways, was closed between Barnegat and Lacey townships, and more than 1,300 structures were threatened. Shelters were open at two high schools, according to the Barnegat police department.

Officials later said all evacuation orders had been lifted for the approximately 5,000 residents who had been evacuated on Tuesday in Lacey and Ocean townships and the highways had reopened in both directions.

The fire is expected to continue to burn for several days until rain comes on Friday or Saturday, officials said during an update on Wednesday. “This is still a very active fire,” said Shawn LaTourette, the state’s commissioner of environmental protection. “As we continue to get this under full control, the expectation is that the number of acres will grow and will grow in a place that is unpopulated.”

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

Israel’s far-right security minister Ben-Gvir to visit Yale day after Mar-a-Lago dinner

Macron’s Palestine Play – Too Little, Too Late

Human Rights Watch Faults Israel for Indiscriminate Attacks on Lebanese Civilians

Dozens of members of UK Jewish body facing disciplinary action over criticism of Israel

Michigan's Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders

Western Nations Join the United States in Repressing Dissent

Setback For U.S. 'Ceasefire' Deal In Ukraine

Kremlin Says Peace Possible if Ukraine Withdraws from Russian-Claimed Territory

AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers

Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities

Fiscal Failure & The French Revolution

Trump's War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More

Elon Musk, Scott Bessent Get Into SHOUTING MATCH In White House West Wing

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A Little Night Music

Jimmy Liggins - That's What's Knockin Me Out

Jimmy Liggins - I Ain't Drunk

Jimmy Liggins - Lookin' For My Baby

Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy Orchestra - Saturday Nite Boogie Woogie Man

Jimmy Liggins With Band - Boogie Woogie King

Jimmy Liggins - Knocked Out

Jimmy Liggins - Talking That Talk

Jimmy Liggins - Working Man Blues

Jimmy Liggins - Drunk

Jimmy Liggins & his Drops Of Joy - Cadillac Boogie

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