Let Americans Drive the Best EVs 7/10/2025

                                           Let Americans Drive the Best EVs

Michael Dunne’s article rightly highlights a glaring contradiction in America’s electric vehicle (EV) transition: U.S. consumers are being denied access to some of the world’s most advanced and affordable EVs — specifically those made by China’s BYD.
BYD, the world’s top EV manufacturer, is producing sleek, efficient models like the Seagull for under $12,000. Yet American buyers can’t even test-drive them due to strict tariffs, protectionist policies, and geopolitical tensions. While these policies aim to protect U.S. jobs and national security, they also limit consumer choice and hinder climate goals by slowing EV adoption.
The irony is rich: as the U.S. touts green leadership, it is actively blocking the global innovations that could accelerate the clean-energy transition. Meanwhile, American EV makers struggle to deliver truly affordable, mass-market models.
If the U.S. wants to lead on climate, it must embrace — or at least allow — competition. Consumers should be trusted to choose the best vehicle, not forced into a corner by policy walls. Let’s not allow Cold War fears to stall a clean energy future.

Netanyahu’s Victory Is Israel’s Loss 7/10/2025

                                                    Netanyahu’s Victory Is Israel’s Loss

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may claim political victory, but it comes at a devastating cost to Israel’s soul and standing in the world. Under his leadership, Israel has plunged into unprecedented moral decline—engaging in mass killing, collective punishment, and the systematic destruction of Palestinian lives, infrastructure, and dreams.
This is not security. This is state terror masquerading as defense.
Netanyahu's far-right coalition has fueled unchecked settler violence, gutted the judiciary, and waged brutal wars that have killed thousands of civilians, many of them children. His continued rule is built on fear, division, and the suppression of truth—targeting journalists, aid workers, and even Israeli citizens who dare to dissent.
Rather than bringing peace or prosperity, Netanyahu's policies have isolated Israel diplomatically, polarized its society, and deepened the occupation that robs Palestinians of dignity and Israelis of their humanity.
Many Jews worldwide are rejecting this betrayal of Jewish ethical values. They know: support for Israel does not mean allegiance to Netanyahu.
History will not judge him kindly. Nor should we.

Jagjit Singh     

No Food, No Clinics, No Power: another preventable Holocaust" 7/9/2025

             No Food, No Clinics, No Power: another preventable Holocaust"

As President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Washington for a second day, reports suggest Israel is under growing pressure to agree to a 60-day ceasefire deal with Hamas. Yet as negotiations stall, the death toll in Gaza continues to mount. On Tuesday alone, Israeli strikes killed nearly 100 people, including children playing at a roundabout and a disabled man sheltering nearby.
Palestinians are fleeing south in search of food after the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) closed its last central aid site. Over 770 people have reportedly been killed at GHF-run locations by Israeli forces and U.S. security contractors since May. Meanwhile, a crippling fuel shortage has pushed Gaza’s infrastructure to the brink. The Red Crescent shut its 18th clinic due to Israeli shelling and lack of medical supplies. Desperately needed aid is being blocked, and children are now facing a surge of meningitis infections.
Hamas demands an end to Israel’s occupation, international guarantees of a permanent ceasefire, and the restoration of humanitarian aid. Yet with every delay, the human cost rises. One survivor asks, “What exactly are they waiting for?”
This is not a war. It’s a massacre enabled by silence. The time for a permanent ceasefire is now.
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Ceasefire Delayed, Civilians Slaughtered, world community, especially, the US, silent

 Ceasefire Delayed, Civilians Slaughtered, world community, especially, the US, silent

As President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Washington for a second day, reports suggest Israel is under growing pressure to agree to a 60-day ceasefire deal with Hamas. Yet as negotiations stall, the death toll in Gaza continues to mount. On Tuesday alone, Israeli strikes killed nearly 100 people, including children playing at a roundabout and a disabled man sheltering nearby.
Palestinians are fleeing south in search of food after the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) closed its last central aid site. Over 770 people have reportedly been killed at GHF-run locations by Israeli forces and U.S. security contractors since May. Meanwhile, a crippling fuel shortage has pushed Gaza’s infrastructure to the brink. The Red Crescent shut its 18th clinic due to Israeli shelling and lack of medical supplies. Desperately needed aid is being blocked, and children are now facing a surge of meningitis infections.
Hamas demands an end to Israel’s occupation, international guarantees of a permanent ceasefire, and the restoration of humanitarian aid. Yet with every delay, the human cost rises. One survivor asks, “What exactly are they waiting for?”
This is not a war. It’s a massacre enabled by silence. The time for a permanent ceasefire is now.

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Brilliant San Francisco doctor , fired by UCSF over bogus charges of antisemitism 7/4/2025

 Brilliant San Francisco doctor , fired by UCSF over bogus charges of antisemitism

The recent dismissal of Dr. Rupa Marya from UCSF critically illustrates how legitimate criticism of Israeli state actions is being maliciously and unfairly conflated with antisemitism. Dr. Marya’s condemnation of what many observers—including UN human rights experts—describe as genocidal starvation and bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza is not antisemitism, but an urgent moral and medical alarm. That her views were immediately labeled as “antisemitic” by UCSF, public officials, and donors amounts to a political witch-hunt designed to silence dissent.
This is more than the suppression of a single physician’s voice—it is a chilling sign of how pro-Zionist political forces are actively undermining doctors, educators, and professionals who raise ethical concerns about mass suffering and systematic injustice. Dr. Marya spoke for countless healthcare workers across Gaza whose hospitals have been targeted, whose capacity to care has been decimated, and whose patients are dying—yet she is the one punished. This sends a dangerous signal to all those who bear witness to human suffering: speak up at your peril.
It is time to challenge this toxic atmosphere that equivocates criticism of Israeli government policy with hatred of Jewish people. This tactic is being used not only to silence Dr. Marya, but also to chill public discourse on genocide and war crimes. Concurrently, I encourage readers to support Dr. Marya’s legal defense—which aims to uphold free speech, academic freedom, and the role of healthcare professionals as moral witnesses. You can donate to her GoFundMe defense fund, titled “Support the Fight for HCW’s Collective Voice”, organized by the Do No Harm Coalition. This fund is vital to covering her legal expenses as she fights for the rights of all healthcare advocates to speak truth to power.
Let us not allow the fear of false antisemitism accusations to shackle conscience or to erode the foundations of medical ethics and free expression.
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Big, Beautiful” Betrayal of the Sick and Poor

                            Big, Beautiful” Betrayal of the Sick and Poor

On this Fourth of July, as we reflect on liberty and justice, it is chilling to see a Senate budget bill that tramples both ideals. President Trump’s 940-page “Big, Beautiful Bill” promises trillions in tax breaks for the wealthy while gutting healthcare and vital services for millions of Americans.
The bill would slash Medicaid more deeply than ever before, causing nearly 12 million people—including children, seniors, and people with disabilities—to lose coverage. Harvard physician Dr. Adam Gaffney warns that this could lead to 16,500 preventable deaths each year, and 1.3 million people going without essential medications. Nearly 400,000 women could lose access to mammograms.
Meanwhile, the bill repeals clean energy incentives, imposes new taxes on solar and wind, and grants lavish breaks to oil and coal companies. It slashes food assistance and makes student loans more expensive. In short, it rips away basic needs from the most vulnerable to reward the wealthiest.
Senator Bernie Sanders called it “the most dangerous piece of legislation in modern U.S. history”—a bill bought and paid for by billionaires who fund campaigns and now expect a return on their investment.
This is not fiscal responsibility. It is class warfare. As rural hospitals face closure and millions risk medical debt, the promise of American freedom feels hollow for those being left behind. No celebration of independence is complete without a commitment to protect the health and dignity of all Americans—not just the privileged few.

What to the Migrant Is the 4th of July? 7/4/2025

                                          What to the Migrant Is the 4th of July?

On this Fourth of July, as fireworks explode and patriotic hymns fill the air, we must ask: what does this celebration mean to those who suffer in the shadows of American hypocrisy?
What is the Fourth of July to the migrants languishing in ICE detention centers, some abused by masked agents, others—shockingly, including U.S. citizens—deported or imprisoned abroad in El Salvador’s notorious jails? What is this holiday to the farmworkers who labor under punishing heat to put food on our tables, yet live in fear of being snatched by ICE in unmarked cars? What does this “independence” mean to children too terrified to go to school, lest they be separated from their parents?
What is this day to the sick who cannot afford a doctor due to gutted health services, or to those laid off under government “efficiency” schemes designed to further enrich the powerful? What does it mean to the scientists and scholars contemplating leaving America as universities come under ideological assault?
Frederick Douglass once declared that the Fourth of July revealed the “gross injustice and cruelty” faced by the enslaved. Today, his words ring true for millions excluded from the blessings of liberty. Until justice is real for all, America’s celebration is not unity—it is mockery.