Early voting has ended in New York City, and the initial numbers show the highest early voting turnout for a non-presidential election in the city.
The New York City Board of Elections reported 735,317 early voting check-ins over the past nine days. That‘s more than four times the total from the 2021 mayoral race, which reported only 169,879 early voting check-ins for the general election.
A whopping 732,866 voters cast ballots over the nine days of early voting in the New York City mayor’s race this year, according to an amNewYork analysis of early voter data from the city Board of Elections.
The general election’s early voting turnout this year marked the highest number of votes cast before Election Day in a non-presidential election year since the city implemented early voting in 2019.
Among the countries the U.S. is speaking to about contributing to the force are Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar and Azerbaijan, said the adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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After Hamas killed seven men in Gaza City it accused of collaborating with Israel, the advisers said there were discussions to establish safe zones for civilians to prevent such incidents.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office publishes photos of the premier alongside US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as they participate in the full cabinet meeting where ministers are due to vote on the first phase of Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Ireland, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Türkiye express their concern about the security of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civil society initiative in which citizens of their countries are participating.
The Global Sumud Flotilla has informed about its objective of delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and raising awareness about the urgent humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people and the need to stop the war in Gaza. Both objectives, peace and humanitarian aid delivery, together with the respect of international law, including humanitarian law, are shared by our governments.
We therefore call on everyone to refrain from any unlawful or violent act against the Flotilla, to respect international law and international humanitarian law.
We recall that any violation of international law and human rights of the participants in the Flotilla, including attacks against the vessels in international waters or illegal detention, will lead to accountability.
The foreign ministers of 16 countries have voiced concern for the safety of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civil society initiative attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through sea vessels.
In a joint statement on Tuesday, the governments of Turkey, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Ireland, Libya, Malaysia, the Maldives, Mexico, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Slovenia, South Africa and Spain have all confirmed that their citizens are onboard the mission.
According to Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, “In the end, only Israel and the US, perhaps along with Micronesia, will stand alone on the international stage, trying to defy the will of the majority of the world’s nations. Trump’s decision to prevent the Palestinians from participating in the UN General Assembly is yet another direct attack on the international order. But it doesn’t really change anything: the Palestinian people have the right to self-determination, just like any other people in the world. The whole world knows this and supports this fundamental right, and everyone who believes in justice and peace stands with the Palestinian people, now, more than ever.”
“Trump’s decision to ban Palestinians from the UN summit in New York is a full and direct attack on the UN and the international order. The US is an enemy of the Palestinian cause and is fully supportive of the genocidal settler Israeli government. The rest of the world, the UN, and all peace-loving peoples must resist this attack and stand by the Palestinian people. If it be – the UN conference should be held in Europe”, Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman agreed,
As UN host, Washington is obligated not to block delegates. While activists frequently demand visa bans on controversial leaders, the US rarely enforces such measures.
Exceptions include barring Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir in 2013 over ICC charges and forcing the General Assembly to meet in Geneva in 1988 when Yasser Arafat was refused entry.
Die Vorwürfe ähneln sich: Spionage für Israel, Kollaboration mit dem Mossad oder auch „Verbreitung von Angst und die Störung des mentalen Friedens der Öffentlichkeit“.
Offenbar werden bekannte Regimekritiker genauso ins Visier genommen wie Menschen, die in den sozialen Medien Bilder und Videos von israelischen Luftangriffen posten.
It is unfortunate, then, that your letter disregards Harvard’s efforts and instead presents demands that, in contravention of the First Amendment, invade university freedoms long recognized by the Supreme Court.
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The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.
(November 30, 2024)
#TwoStateSolution #Gaza #Palestine
Afghanistan
Albania
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American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
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Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
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Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
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(February 28, 2025)
In the last 30 years, Europe has outsourced its mining needs to other regions of the world, and has stopped looking for the resources it had right at home, experts say
Wir verurteilen den völkerrechtswidrigen Angriff Russlands auf die Ukraine. Wir fordern einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand und Verhandlungen ohne Vorbedingungen. Eine Friedensarchitektur für Europa lässt sich dauerhaft nur dann etablieren, wenn die Sicherheitsinteressen aller Seiten respektiert werden. Dies haben die Vereinigten Staaten als Führungsmacht der NATO jahrzehntelang missachtet. Das BSW setzt sich für einen neuen Ansatz in der Friedens- und Außenpolitik ein, der die Erreichung gemeinsamer Sicherheit in Europa anstrebt.
Die Verantwortung vor der deutschen Geschichte und die Dankbarkeit für das friedliche Gelingen des deutschen Einigungsprozesses, verpflichten uns, zur Beilegung von Konflikten immer den Weg der Diplomatie einzufordern. Aus der gefährlichen Spirale der Konfrontation und der Verschwendung von Milliardengeldern für Waffen gibt es nur einen vernünftigen Ausweg: De-Eskalation und neue Abrüstungsverträge.
Sieben Schwerpunkte, für die wir uns in der Bürgerschaft stark machen werden:
– Wir wollen ein friedliches Hamburg, das für Völkerverständigung und Weltoffenheit steht. Unser Hafen soll ein Ort des Handels und der Wertschöpfung sein und keine NATO-Drehscheibe für Waffen und Kriegsmaterial. Nachwuchsanwerbung durch Offiziere der Bundeswehr an den Schulen lehnen wir ab.
– Die SAGA als kommunales Wohnungsunternehmen aller Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger soll ihre Gewinne zur Schaffung von neuem, preiswerten Wohnraum, Sanierung und Modernisierung verwenden, anstatt sie an den Senat zum Stopfen von Haushaltslöchern abzuführen. Wir wollen bezahlbare Wohnungen schaffen, statt Immobilienhaie noch reicher zu machen.
– Wir wollen ein zentrales Baustellen-Management und ein Ende des Baustellen-Chaos. Unser ÖPNV muss leistungsfähiger, preiswerter und auch in den Randgebieten flächendeckend werden. Auch beim Verkehr wollen wir eine barrierefreie, inklusive Stadt.
– Wir wollen gute Bildung für alle – von der Kita bis zur Hochschule. Hamburg muss mehr in die Bildung und insbesondere in das Personal investieren. Kinder brauchen mehr Lehrerinnen und Lehrer und keine Digitalgeräte. Jedes Kind soll nach der Grundschule lesen, schreiben und rechnen können und täglich ein kostenloses Mittagessen erhalten.
– Wir wollen mehr öffentliche Investitionen in eine gemeinwohlorientierte Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur, kein weiteres Verscherbeln von städtischem Grund und Boden sowie unbürokratische Verfahren und schnelle, verlässliche Entscheidungen für kleine und mittlere Betriebe…
Antiwar and countercultural activism by millions of young people of every backgound turned campuses and cities into both battle grounds and zones of social and cultural innovation while helping to bring down two presidents and rearranging both the Democratic and Republican Parties. The impact of these movements registered widely: in the military which had to be redesigned to operate without conscription; in mass media which scrambled to recapture a generation that had discovered underground newspapers; and especially in the new ways that many Americans would from then on view their nation‘s institutions and role in the world.
(June 1, 2016)
All sides have attempted to define the collective memory of the Vietnam War in ways that advance their current visions for global and domestic politics and superimpose them on the past. Think, for example, of the persistence of the “spit upon” or “baby killer” myths, or the claim that the antiwar movement “stabbed” soldiers “in the back” (even many of my students, born decades later, say these are the first things they think about when they hear “Vietnam War”).1 The continued influence of these myths has helped prop up consent for militarism at home and abroad. The story of GI protest during the war is an important counter to the conventional story, for it hits at the heart of some of the most emotive symbols in these political battles: the soldiers. It offers grounding for an alternative politics from the antiwar left. It is history worth knowing.
August 1964
False claims of North Vietnamese attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin lead to U.S. airstrikes and an escalating air war over the coming years that becomes the heaviest bombing campaign in the history of warfare, with more than 7 million tons of bombs and ordnance used against Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
1965
Major escalation of U.S. ground troops begins.
January 1965
Lt. Richard Steinke becomes the first U.S. serviceman to refuse to fight after arriving in Vietnam. In November that year, Lt. Henry Howe of Ft. Bliss, Texas, attends antiwar protest in El Paso and is sentenced to two years hard labor.
June, 1966
Privates James Johnson, Dennis Mora and David Samis—the Ft. Hood Three—publicly refuse orders to Vietnam.
October, 1966
Capt. Howard Levy, MD, refuses orders to train Green Beret combatants at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina.
December 1967
Andy Stapp and others at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, form the American Servicemen’s Union and organize chapters at dozens of military installations and ships.
Late 1967
Vietnam GI , one of the first known GI antiwar newspapers, begins publication. Hundreds of other GI papers appear throughout the military over the next five years. …….
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7. 12. 2024 | Das Verfassungsgericht Rumäniens hat am Freitag (6.12.) die erste Runde der Präsidentschaftswahl annulliert und den zweiten Wahlgang am Sonntag abgesagt. Grund sei Einflussnahme auf die Wahl durch TikTok-Nutzer. Vorausgegangen war ein Bericht des nationalen Sicherheitsrats und öffentliche Drohungen der US-Regierung.
Wenn die US-Regierung eigens eine Erklärung zum Ausgang der ersten Runde der Präsidentschaftswahl in Rumänien veröffentlicht und diese beginnt mit:….
Americans may be waiting days to know the outcome of the presidential election if the vote count is as close in battleground states as polling suggests, as several key swing states don’t allow officials to start processing or counting mail-in ballots until Election Day—meaning it could take days to know who won
The documents also report no sign of any preparations by Israel to activate its nuclear deterrent. (…)
The US has made no secret of its opposition to the targeting of either Iran’s nuclear research facilities or its oil installations.
However, another piece of intelligence is marked as being for the eyes of US and British intelligence only: that Israel has been using a long-range unmanned surveillance drone which is capable of flying covertly over Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.
The drone, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), is a “covert” drone named RA-01. It was not publicly known about.
Between the lines: The report, if accurate, would suggest very close and detailed surveillance by U.S. intelligence of Israel‘s preparations for an attack on Iran, including the use of satellites to spy on operations carried out at Israeli Air Force bases.
Another US official said that “these two documents are bad, but not horrible. The concern is if there are more.”
It is not clear how the documents became public, nor whether they were hacked or deliberately leaked.
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List of countries which Israel maintains diplomatic relations with:
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An dem Treffen in der spanischen Hauptstadt nahmen der palästinensische Regierungschef Mohammed Mustafa, die Außenminister Katars, Saudi-Arabiens, Ägyptens und der Türkei sowie die Generalsekretäre der Arabischen Liga und der Organisation für Islamische Zusammenarbeit teil.
Die EU war durch ihren Außenbeauftragten Josep Borrell vertreten. Zudem nahmen die Außenminister Irlands, Norwegens, Sloweniens und Spaniens an den Gesprächen teil. Alle vier Länder hatten vor einigen Monaten offiziell einen eigenständigen palästinensischen Staat anerkannt.
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