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The European Union is the “chief of all cowards,” Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation was a direct response to the European bloc’s systemic failure to sever ties with Israel during the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg.

Despite months of legal warnings, the EU once again prioritized procedural safety over the urgency of human life.

The efforts to press the EU to finally take a moral position were led by a coalition of Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia, later joined by Belgium. They argued that the EU-Israel Association Agreement—the legal framework governing their trade relationship—is predicated on the "respect for human rights." 

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The Supreme Court just ripped away a core American right: the right to a fair and equal vote in elections no matter your racial background. Their ruling in the Louisiana v. Callais case opens the door to discriminatory voting maps across the country. On April 30th, join legal experts and civil rights community leaders from the No Kings Coalition for a rapid response call as we break down the ins and outs of the Callais decision, what this means for you, and the future. You will hear from leaders from LDF, ACLU, and more.

More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024 election, the decision remains highly controversial. Arguments swirl around whether it’s wise to proceed without public scrutiny of what went wrong during the last presidential campaign. But scant attention has focused on how hiding the autopsy provides an assist to Kamala Harris, who currently leads in polling of Democrats for the party’s 2028 nomination.

Perhaps theologian Walter Wink can help us understand Pete Hegseth, America’s self-declared “secretary of war” and spokesman, for God’s sake . . . for God. At a recent prayer service at the Department of Defense, for instance, Hegseth, after calling the Iranians “barbaric savages” who deserve no mercy, called on the citizens of his country to pray for victory “in the name of Jesus Christ.”

Love thy neighbor, folks! Earlier he had boasted that the American bombing campaign had “unleashed twice the firepower in its first five days as the initial ‘shock and awe’ bombing phase of the Iraq War in 2003.” You might recall, of course, that this campaign included the devastation of a school in Minab, which killed – murdered – around 170 people, including over 100 children. God bless America.

The overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh on August 19, 1953, stands as one of the most consequential coups of the twentieth century, marking a decisive moment in the consolidation of modern imperialist intervention. Operation Ajax was not merely the removal of a democratically legitimate, anti-imperialist government; it represented a deliberate effort by the United States and Britain to discipline a postcolonial state that sought control over its own resources. In doing so, it established a durable template for undermining nationalist movements that threatened Western imperial strategic and corporate dominance.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- In an unusual display of non-diplomatic language directed at his own country, former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Robert F. Godec publicly denounced "the reckless and erratic actions of the United States" and President Donald Trump's Iran War.

He also took a swipe at Israel.

"Unfortunately the United States under President Trump is now undermining the [post-1945 international] system," Mr. Godec said, citing Washington's tariffs, political aggression against Greenland and Canada, seizure of Venezuela's former president Nicolas Maduro, the Iran War, and assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei.

"The regime in Tehran is abhorrent, but the United States, working with Israel, undertook this war of choice alone. 

"People around the world are bearing the consequences, which could yet get much worse," Mr. Godec wrote in a 1,367-word statement published Thursday (April 23) on the opinion page of the Bangkok Post, the daily English newspaper for foreigners and Thailand's establishment.

The Senate confirmed Mr. Godec to be ambassador to Thailand in 2022. Previously, he was ambassador to Kenya and Tunisia.