Jim Cason

journalist

[Jim Cason @jimcason]

Congress Is Underfunding Tribal Colleges by $250 Million Per Year https://t.co/mDYBNf0jsF

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

FIFA has tripled the price of its best available tickets to the World Cup final — taking them from $10,990 to $32,970.

Resale tickets for the final on the FIFA Resale/Exchange Marketplace go as high as $11,499,998.

[Jim Cason @jimcason]

South African Apartheid Prepared Me for Today's United States https://t.co/ZOxFVX2fNE via @allafrica

[Jim Cason @jimcason]

More Than Three Million People Have Lost Federal Food Aid https://t.co/SQDINBvbxu

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

Israel has a clear pattern: whenever diplomacy shows even a glimmer of resolving conflicts peacefully, it moves to derail the talks.

In his memoir "Bibi: My Story", Netanyahu openly admits that when Obama signed the JCPOA he "vowed to do everythig to roll it back".

“I attacked the deal mercilessly, calling it a capitulation and a mistake of historic proportions”, he admits.

"I went for the jugular"!

The same pattern is on full display now.

Israel’s recent vicious attack on Lebanon - right in the middle of a ceasefire which DID include Lebanon - follows the exact playbook.

Israel did it with Obama. It’ll try to do it with Trump too.

Whenever diplomacy appears to work, he goes for the jugular!

[Jim Cason @jimcason]

Valle la pena leer más de ⁦@tparsi⁩ https://t.co/EnjeUO9wvi https://t.co/AZO0ns0INr

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇺 Cuba had a lower infant mortality rate than the United States until 2019. Life expectancy of 78 — comparable to OECD countries. The only nation in Latin America to develop its own Covid vaccines, at over 90% efficacy.

Even through the Soviet collapse in the 1990s, with barely any electricity, infant mortality kept dropping every single year. Drop Site contributor Ed Augustin, based in Havana, said those health indicators – which survived every prior shock – are falling for the first time.

@ManInHabana | @ryangrim | @MazMHussain

[La Jornada @lajornadaonline]

🤝 El presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, reiteró en entrevista exclusiva con La Jornada la disposición de la isla al diálogo con Estados Unidos, siempre sobre la base del respeto mutuo, la soberanía y el derecho internacional.

La decisión de dialogar, subrayó, es colectiva.

La entrevista completa en: https://t.co/LklGGhQ2VX

#VideosLaJornada

[Presidencia Cuba 🇨🇺 @PresidenciaCuba]

🇨🇺| Presidente @DiazCanelB en entrevista a @LaJornada:

"Con toda sinceridad te lo digo: estoy dispuesto a actuar hasta las últimas consecuencias. Tengo un compromiso enorme con el pueblo cubano, con la revolución, su liderazgo y nuestra historia".

📎| https://t.co/zYhvZlsaHe

[Ernesto Ledesma A @eledesmaa]

No se pierda esta extraordinaria entrevista de @lhan55 al presidente de Cuba 🇨🇺, @DiazCanelB!

Esa mezcla entre el periodista Luis Hernández Navarro y el presidente Díaz-Canel le aporta un enorme sentido de profundidad, al sostener un diálogo no sólo coyuntural, sino estructural, con preguntas y respuestas que nos permiten entender las dimensiones más profundas de una nación llamada Cuba 🇨🇺.

Felicidades a Luis y a @lajornadaonline.

Espero que esta histórica entrevista, @LaJornada la imprima integra, aunque sea en partes.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Trump just threatened to bomb all of Iran's power plants if Iran doesn't open the Straits within 48h.

We know Iran will not comply with this threat.

If Trump follows through on his threats, Tehran will likely strike at energy facilities throughout the Persian Gulf as well as in Israel. By now, it is really foolish to think it won't.

An already bad situation will worsen with rising oil and gas prices, higher grocery costs in the US, and the closure of most remaining exit ramps.

Escalation only intensifies the lose-lose scenario.

Both sides need to get serious about off-ramps.

Neither side should seek the humiliation of the other. Neither side can force the other's surrender.

Both have to be able to construct a convincing narrative of victory for their own audiences.

They may not realize it yet, but both the US and Iran ultimately have a common interest in such an exit.

[CM Janeese Lewis George @CMLewisGeorgeW4]

Don’t be fooled. Removing protected bike lanes along 15th St. near the National Mall doesn’t alleviate congestion – it’ll cause more of it as accidents increase. It’s yet another effort by the federal gov’t to politicize common-sense safety measures in DC. https://t.co/UUBuQ2HdeL

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: UK national security adviser Jonathan Powell attended final talks between US and Iran - and judged Tehran's offer on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent rush to war @patrickwintour & @julianborger reveal

https://t.co/ozqrM2MhDw

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Spain is the moral leader of Europe. Germany is currently the opposite.

[Lee Schlenker @lee_schlenker]

Cuba has released prisoners & confirmed bilateral talks. “For now, a Vatican-led mediation may be the best off-ramp for both governments to resolve their differences while keeping the well-being of the Cuban people front & center,” I write in @RStatecraft. https://t.co/f9HL3S8jvp

[Ben Freeman @BenFreemanDC]

One of the debaters is from an org that has accepted more money from Pentagon contractors than any other think tank in the U.S. The other is from a think tank that has taken $0 from them.

Tune in to see if you can figure out who's who!

[Jim Cason @jimcason]

@ChristopherHale Very good decision by the Vatican. @lajornadaonline in Mexico also published the photo

[La Jornada @lajornadaonline]

Cubanoestadunidenses ultraconservadores en Miami promueven públicamente la presión política en Estados Unidos a favor del cambio de régimen en Cuba y una vez más –como tantas veces en el pasado– consideran que “ahora sí” lograrán derrocar al gobierno en la isla, aunque están preocupados de que el presidente Donald Trump y su secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, podrían dar prioridad a sólo modificaciones económicas mientras dejan parte del régimen en el poder.

No cesan los rumores de que podrían llegar a un acuerdo sobre cambios económicos, aunque el gobierno cubano insiste en que no existen tales negociaciones.

Más información en: https://t.co/y375TsgyDF

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

So U.S. now is moving from regime change to territorial change. Iranians will understand that this is no longer about the survival of the Islamic Republic, it is about the territorial integrity of Iran.

[Jim Cason @jimcason]

After sinking Iranian ship, did the US Navy commit a war crime? @LobeLog https://t.co/KfhUC39Y74

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Tehran today, under Israeli bombardment. According to Iranian monarchists in exile, only regime supporters are killed in these indiscriminate bombings...