Aaron Mate

Alexander Vindman, a former National Security Council official who rose to fame as a star witness in Donald Trump’s first impeachment, has become the latest neoconservative candidate to lose a Democratic primary. In a major upset, Vindman was defeated Tuesday by State Representative Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist and Medicare-for-All advocate, in the race for Florida’s Democratic Senate nomination. He lost despite national name recognition and a 16-to-one fundraising advantage.

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Four months into President Donald Trump’s first stint in office, the FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation of him as a suspected asset of the Russian government.

(BART MAAT/AFP via Getty Images) [Note: When veteran inspector Dr. Brendan Whelan challenged the manipulation of a probe into an alleged April 2018 chemical weapons attack in the Syrian city of Douma, the leadership of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) publicly disparaged and censured him. After a lengthy arbitration case, the OPCW has been ordered to reverse its decision and pay Dr. Whelan moral damages and legal costs.

(Photo by CARLOS BARRIA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) President Trump has not achieved regime change in Tehran, nor its surrender to his ultimatum of abandoning nuclear enrichment. With the bombing phase of an unpopular war waged jointly with Israel on pause, Trump is settling on a third, familiar objective: strangling Iran’s economy long-term. Trump has reportedly instructed aides to prepare for a prolonged naval blockade of Iran. Trump insists that his goal is to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon.

Note: Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has become the source of controversy. After suffering a severe stroke in June 2023, Chomsky is unable to comment on it. His wife Valeria has responded to questions surrounding their contacts with Epstein in the statement below. I am publishing it here, with minor typographical corrections. As many are aware, my husband, Noam Chomsky, now 97, is confronting significant health challenges after suffering a devastating stroke in June 2023.

(Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images) In announcing the US military’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of president Nicolás Maduro, an operation that reportedly killed at least 80 people, President Trump laid bare his real motive. Invoking the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, which has underpinned decades of US aggression against Latin American governments, Trump bragged that “they now call it the Donroe Doctrine...

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was hoping to leave the White House on Friday with a commitment for long-range US Tomahawk missiles that can strike Russia. Instead, Zelensky once again found himself on the losing end of his strained relationship with President Trump. After musing about providing Tomahawks and even declaring that Ukraine was positioned to recapture all of its territory, Trump rejected Zelensky’s request and urged him to cede the Donbas region to Moscow.

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