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President Trump on the failed plan to use Kurds for regime change:

"The Kurds let us down. I disagreed with the decision. I said they won't deliver the arms. I think they KEPT them for themselves. I'll remember that.

We actually sent them weapons, and we were VERY disappointed by the Kurds, to be honest with you."

After being double-crossed, used like pawns, and left for dead repeatedly by the US for several decades, Kurdish mercenaries finally got some small revenge on the US by refusing to be cannon fodder regime change troops against Iran again.


 
President Trump on the failed plan to use Kurds for regime change:

"The Kurds let us down. I disagreed with the decision. I said they won't deliver the arms. I think they KEPT them for themselves. I'll remember that.

We actually sent them weapons, and we were VERY disappointed by the Kurds, to be honest with you."

After being double-crossed, used like pawns, and left for dead repeatedly by the US for several decades, Kurdish mercenaries finally got some small revenge on the US by refusing to be cannon fodder regime change troops against Iran again.



Isn’t this an older narrative?
 

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WASHINGTON -- The NAACP is calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that are taking steps that the nation's oldest civil rights group says are restricting Black voting rights.

Launched Tuesday, the "Out of Bounds" campaign urges prospective Black athletes, their families, alumni and fans to "withhold athletic and financial support" from major public universities in states that "have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation."

If Black athletes participate in the boycott, it could deplete rosters for powerhouse football and basketball programs across the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference.

The NAACP is among groups responding to a wave of gerrymandering in the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling that winnowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Civil rights activists have mobilized across the South to protest redistricting plans by Republican state legislatures that eliminate majority-Black congressional districts after the high court's ruling. Activists have looked for pressure points to dissuade GOP-led states from redistricting maps, including calls for mass protests and economic boycotts.

"Across the South, Black athletes have helped build some of the most profitable college athletic programs in America," said NAACP president Derrick Johnson. Johnson noted that the programs "generate hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue, national television value, alumni donations, merchandising sales, ticket sales and brand equity -- much of it powered by Black football and basketball talent."

The NAACP's campaign calls out Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina as states to boycott, arguing that the athletic programs of those states' flagship universities are especially reliant on Black athletic talent and should protect Black political interests.

"Black athletes should not be asked to generate wealth, prestige, and power for state institutions while those same states strip political power from Black communities," Johnson said.

Black lawmakers themselves are also pressuring athletic leagues to take action against Republican-led states that might redistrict longtime Black members of Congress.

The Congressional Black Caucus on Monday sent a letter to the commissioners of the SEC and ACC athletic conferences, as well as NCAA president Charlie Baker, stating that its members will oppose the SCORE Act, a bill to standardize athletes' contracting rights across the country, unless conference leaders oppose GOP-led redistricting efforts in states that include major conference members.

"The Congressional Black Caucus believes institutions that profit from Black talent and Black communities have a responsibility to stand with those communities when their fundamental rights are under attack," the CBC said. "Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality -- it is complicity."
They'll try again next month

 

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Families say the crew of a top U.S. warship is falling apart.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is now in its ninth month at sea backing U.S. operations against Iran.

It went 208 straight days without a real port stop before a quick pull-in at Oman, a modern record for a Navy carrier.

Relatives describe endless shifts, moldy showers, broken facilities, and sailors who can't even get basics like soap and toothpaste.

Here's the scary part. Families say they fear this much exhaustion on a carrier packed with jets and thousands of people is how disasters happen.

The sting: families say many of them voted for Trump because he promised no new wars. Now their kids are stuck in one.

The Navy insists the Lincoln is fully capable and adequately supplied.

This is the cost of a war nobody wants to talk about.

Source: MS NOW / Writer: Daniyal


 
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