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Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Massacre Leaves Lebanese Families Giving DNA to ID Loved Ones’ Remains

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  Most Read Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Massacre Leaves Lebanese Families Giving DNA to ID Loved Ones’ Remains Alaa Serhal In Lebanon, an unprecedented campaign of DNA tests is being used to identify mangled bodies left trapped under rubble by Israel’s blitz. Read More → When Anti-War Candidates Become War-Monger Presidents The Intercept Briefing Matt Duss, former foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, on how Democrats can win on an anti-war platform. Listen → Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Thank you for being a member of The Intercept. Will you make an additional contribution to support our journalism? CONTRIBUTE → Top Stories Democrats Are Split Over What It Means to Block Israel Weapons Deals Jonah Valdez There’s a divide between those seeking to end all U.S. weapons deals with Israel and those who want to allow some exceptions. Read More → Crypto Critic Maxine Waters’s New Primary Foe Got Over Two-Thirds of Money From Crypto Matt Sledge Wa...
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Incendiary Inflation

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  Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more Incendiary Inflation Donald Trump just lit the world economy on fire MeidasTouch Network Apr 20 ∙ Preview By Max from  UNFTR 3.3%. That’s where inflation stands after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March CPI report. Highest in two years. Hottest single-month jump in four years. Gasoline rose twenty-one percent in one month. But the scariest part is what the inflation figures mean going forward. Let’s go back. When Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the post-COVID inflation wave was just beginning. By June 2022, CPI had surged to 9.1 percent — the highest reading since November 1981. Forty-year high. The Fed, under Jerome Powell, responded with the most aggressive rate-hiking cycle in a generation — taking rates from near zero all the way to 5.25 percent. There’s a camp out there that claims this medicine worked, a mild nod to the Volcker strategy of yesteryear. Others say that the COVID inflation spik...
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 352.

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  Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 352. Ron Filipkowski Apr 19 … After an explosive story that  Kash Patel   has a serious drinking problem that is affecting his work published by The Atlantic, Patel took to social media and Fox to denounce the story and vowed that his lawyer will file a lawsuit for defamation on Monday. Patel’s lawyer has filed numerous unsuccessful defamation lawsuits for Trump-world figures in the past. … The Atlantic: “On Friday, April 10, as Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the WH, according to 9 people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a ‘freak-out.’” … “News of his emotional outburst ricocheted through the bureau, prompting chat...
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