Tag: Spotlight
Mahmoud Khalil is free! After spending 104 days unjustly held in an ICE detention center in Jena, Louisiana, he was reunited with his wife Noor, newborn son Deen and community over the weekend...
As Israel began its unprovoked attacks on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons.
Marc van Rennes, a Dutch citizen, was in the detention cell at Ben Gurion Airport when Israeli authorities closed the airport expecting Iranian...
In the past couple of days, Donald Trump has been speaking about the possibility of the United States formally entering the Israeli war against Iran. And as of this evening, the U.S. has begun bombing Iran. But the reality is the United States has been at war with Iran...
Precipitated by Israel’s deadly bombing operations that have killed top military commanders and nuclear scientists, the U.S. is poised to attack Iran as part of a long-held goal of orchestrating a regime change there.
The U.S government appears to want to install as Iran’s new leader Reza Pahlavi, the eldest...
Executive orders will ensure more executions
If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more. On his very first day as president, Trump signed an executive order directing...
Donald Trump posted to his social media site Truth Social on Monday evening that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” as he made an early departure from the G7 summit in Canada to “attend to many important matters,” according to the White House...
Gatekeepers who run groups have links to U.S. intelligence and only allow certain kinds of viewpoints—all while claiming to be promoting education and open debate about U.S. foreign policy
On March 17, 2025, the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations (TCFR) featured two National Endowment for Democracy (NED) staffers who...
On June 9, 2025, I attended a protest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania led by the local SEIU union (Local 32BJ).
The protest, which was quite peaceful I should emphasize, was organized primarily to protest the arrest of SEIU California President David Huerta who was gravely injured and then apprehended by police...
Over the weekend, ICE agents invaded Los Angeles and its suburbs, kidnapping dozens of people on Friday and threatening more near a Home Depot on Saturday. These masked and heavily-armed forces are part of Trump’s promised 30-day surge in anti-immigrant attacks in the LA area...
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s (FFC) sailboat, Madleen was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CEST at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E.
The ship was unlawfully boarded, its 12 unarmed civilian crew and participants abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated, as well...
