Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. via Associated PressDonald Trump has warned Iran the United States will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz is re-opened within 48 hours. The US president issued the ultimatum in an angry post on Truth Social. Around one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran has been attacking tankers trying to use it since the war began three weeks ago. AdvertisementThat has led to a spike in the price of oil, triggering a potential global economic crisis as energy costs soar.

Hope is mocked as naïveté, memory is erased, and historical consciousness is censored in a political culture where resistance itself is treated as a crime. This episode illustrates how contemporary propaganda operates less through argument than through the visual seductions of spectacle. Such imagery signals a broader transformation in political culture. The aesthetics of contempt prepared the psychological conditions for political violence. In doing so it reveals the deeper transformation of political culture in an era dominated by the spectacle.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump took the United States to war without a vote of support from Congress, but lawmakers are increasingly questioning when, how and at what cost the war with Iran will come to an end. Under the War Powers Act, the president can conduct military operations for 60 days without approval from Congress. AdvertisementBut the administration will need to show a more comprehensive strategy ahead or risk blowback from Congress, lawmakers said, especially as they are simultaneously being asked to approve billions in new spending. Trump’s quip the war will end “when I feel it in my bones” has drawn alarm. AdvertisementTillis said Trump has latitude under the War Powers Act to conduct the military campaign, but that will soon shift.

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Iran’s attempt to strike a US-UK base over 2,000 miles (over 3,000 kilometers) off its coast has renewed questions about Tehran’s military capabilities and how far its missiles can reach. On Friday morning local time, Iran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK military base in the Indian Ocean, a US official told CNN, adding that neither of them struck the base. Earlier this month, the UK agreed to a US request to allow American forces to use its military bases for operations against Iranian missile sites. Lair also said the Iranians perhaps extended the range of a missile with lighter explosive material. Meanwhile, Parsi questioned whether Iran has the “targeting intelligence” and missile accuracy to successfully strike farther targets.

In the country’s south, residents faced the devastation in the cities of Dimona and Arad. In northern Israel, a man was killed in a strike by the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group. Iran responds to Trump’s ultimatumTrump said on Saturday that he would give Iran 48 hours to open the vital Strait of Hormuz or face a new round of attacks. AdvertisementThe Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean and is a critical pathway for the world’s flow of oil. Dimona is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of the nuclear research center and Arad around 35 kilometers (22 miles) north.

So when President Trump floats the idea of a “friendly takeover of Cuba” or “taking Cuba in some form,” do keep in mind we did that already, back in 1898. By now it was clear to Cubans still recovering from the war for independence that freedom from Spain did not mean sovereignty. Trump can contemplate taking Cuba, but the reality is the U.S. “took” Cuba decades before Fidel Castro, Raul’s brother and predecessor, introduced communism or his family rose to power. We “took” Cuba before President Kennedy initiated his crippling embargo in 1962. Perhaps instead of “taking Cuba,” we should consider offering the people something they haven’t had since the 15th century — true sovereignty.

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Mike Murphy, a co-director of the USC center hosting the debate, has been voluntarily advising an independent expenditure committee backing Mahan. USC has also received tens of millions of dollars in donations from billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso and his wife. Advertisement“Every one of these eight [Democratic candidates] is capable of running the state of California,” he said. Gavin Newsom would have an edge as the next Democratic nominee for president if California Democratic voters had the final say now, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll. … I think they recognize that there were problems with the way this debate had been organized.”Becerra said he reviewed the formula and has “never seen” debate criteria like it before during his decades of serving in elected office.

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