by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Aug 19, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The Democratic-led US Senate today passed a $95.34 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, amid growing doubts about the legislation’s fate in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Reuters reports. The lawmakers approved the measure...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Aug 19, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Joe Biden has finally agreed to withdraw from the US presidential race following a backlash from campaign donors after his poor showing on the CNN Presidential Debate on 27 June and intense pressure from colleagues. Vice President Kamala Harris now appears...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Aug 19, 2024 | Palestine Updates
While the Kamala Harris coronation for Democratic presidential nomination continues along its safely shielded path, her sacred status among party members growing with each day, the decision to select Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as her Vice President (“Veep”)...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Aug 19, 2024 | Palestine Updates
How aristocratic it all sounds, if only in a playground, papier-mâché sort of way. The language of the landed gentry, the “crowning”, the “coronation” — words repurposed for republican politics — is much in evidence with Kamala Harris, who is all but guaranteed the...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Aug 19, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Dozens of Muslim delegates and their allies, angry at US support for Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, are seeking changes in the Democratic platform and plan to press for an arms embargo this week, putting the party on guard for disruptions to...
