While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
TWO days before its welcome end, the Trump regime’s “1776 Commission” released a new report, designed, said a White House statement, to counter efforts “to reframe American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country but an evil one.”
With consistent insensitivity, it chose Martin Luther King Jr Day to disseminate its “patriotic education curriculum,” which, among other things, justified the hypocrisy of the founding fathers for holding slaves while criticising the institution of slavery.
It also took a pointed shot at Marxism which it described as a “radical rejection of human dignity.”
The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter


