Why are Israeli tanks in the occupied West Bank?

February 24, 2025
Israel is signalling a new escalation in its attacks on the West Bank , expelling tens of thousands of people from their homes.

 

 Palestinians have long resisted Israeli tanks with stones [Raneen Sawafta /Reuters]

D is for Decline, Dystopia and . . . Donald

February 24, 2025
Tom Engelhardt
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he’s recently tried to do with North America’s tallest peak. He wants Alaska’s Mount Denali (to hell with Native American names!) to be called Mount McKinley in honor of President William McKinley, the man who, in the 1890s, launched this country as an imperial power of the first order.

'Put Your Grandma's Social Security Check in Danger': Warren Fills in Blanks on What Trump Did Last Week

February 24, 2025
Eloise Goldsmith
"Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk's email and report on what he did last week? To help, I've gone ahead and done it for him," Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on X.

 

 U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on February 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)