Wednesday, June 19, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


Rights Groups To Sue as Louisiana Requires Ten Commandments Displayed in Classrooms

"Our public schools are not Sunday schools," the groups said, "and students of all faiths, or no faith, should feel welcome in them."

By Edward Carver



Amid Carnage and Ecological Damage, Greenpeace Demands Gaza Cease-Fire

"We call for the bullets and bombs to be silenced so that the growing voices for peace can be heard," said the group.

By Jessica Corbett



Chemicals From East Palestine Train Disaster Spread to 16 States: Study

Fires after the February 2023 accident caused plumes of toxic chemicals to spread farther than researchers anticipated. "I think we should be concerned," an expert said.

By Edward Carver



As Boycott Grows, Ocasio-Cortez Says Netanyahu Invitation 'Should Be Revoked'

"This man should not be addressing Congress," said the New York Democrat. "He is a war criminal."

By Jake Johnson



UN Human Rights Office Condemns Israel's Use of 2,000-lb Bombs Against Gaza Civilians

A new OHCHR report details how Israeli "attacks of an apparent indiscriminate nature" fit a wider pattern for hundreds of such bombings that may violate international laws of war.

By Jake Johnson



After Netanyahu Video, Sanders Says US Should Halt 'All Offensive Military Aid'

"It is absurd that Netanyahu has been invited to address Congress," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "We should not be honoring people who use the starvation of children as a weapon of war."

By Jake Johnson


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■ Opinion


King Trump and the Greedy Knights of the Business Roundtable

The nation's most powerful CEOs are lining up to fund Trump, because they and their corporations want another giant tax cut and rollbacks of regulations. It's as simple as that and there's a word for it: greed.

By Robert Reich


Juneteenth Was Not Freely Given—It Was Won

On Juneteenth's call to justice and the U.S. Supreme Court's role in the eternal quest for Black liberation.

By Taifa Smith Butler,Aklima Khondoker


It's Bloody Hot and Deadly—and We Still Have No Climate Action Plan

To make a rapid, far-reaching, and unrelenting break with our fossil-fuel dependency, a national mobilization would be needed, and it would have to be a genuine all-of-society effort.

By John J. Berger


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