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The deadly Israeli invasion of Jenin on July 3 was not a surprise. 

 Also, unsurprising is the fact that the killing of 12 Palestinians, wounding of 120 more and the destruction of nearly 80 percent of the Jenin Refugee Camp’s homes and infrastructure will not make an iota of a difference. 

 Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite his lofty promises of destroying the “safe haven ... of the terrorist enclave in Jenin”, must have known that his bloody exercise was ultimately futile. 

Although the Church Committee's investigation into abuses of the CIA, FBI and NSA was a watershed moment in American history, few books have been written with a focus on Frank Church. James Risen has added to this story by writing “The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy”, which is essentially a biography of Church, and is an important contribution to understanding the workings of the Church Committee.

Free Press readers may know that Dennis Kucinich is the campaign manager for Robert F Kennedy Jr.  He has had a long standing relationship with Bob Fitrakis and the Free Press.  Recall that Congressman Dennis submitted articles of impeachment against George W Bush in 2008. His political career began as the youngest elected mayor of Cleveland, where he fought and won against privitization of the electric industry by First Energy.  The Democratic party in Ohio assisted in removing him from office during a redistricting process which favored Marcy Kaptor.  During his time in office, he advocated for creation of a Department of Peace, to counter the influence of the Military Industrical Complex. 

We encourage readers to subscribe to Mr. Kucinich on substack, here. https://substack.com/@denniskucinich

A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a Soviet spy.

Oppenheimer, of course, is the father of the atomic bomb. He led the Manhattan Project during World War II, which birthed Little Boy and Fat Man, the bombs we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, killing several hundred thousand people and ending the war. What happened next, however, was the Cold War, and suddenly commies – our former allies – were the personification of evil, and they were everywhere. The American government, in its infinite wisdom, knew it had no choice but to continue its nuclear weapons program and, for the sake of peace, put the world on the brink of Armageddon.

Hello, H-bomb!

War, the building block of the world’s governmental entities for uncounted millennia, had evolved to the brink of human extinction. Official government policy amounted to this: So what?

That splendid arcadian Shakespearean reliquary, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, is
presenting four of the Bard’s dramas – Parts 1, 2 and 3 of Henry VI plus Richard III –
compressed, compiled and edited into a single two-act play, Queen Margaret’s Version of
Shakespeare’s War of the Roses, directed by Ellen Geer. A Shakespearean scholar and
playwright, Ms. Geer also stitched together this quartet of history plays by the “Prince of
Poets” for WGTB, which the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust awarded a commemorative
plaque with wood from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon Garden in 2014.
Ms. Geer, who is also WGTB’s Producing Artistic Director, has given the Richard III
and the Henry VI works a decidedly feminist twist, as the tale is told from the women’s
point of view, just as composer André Previn and playwright Tom Stoppard respun
Homer’s Odyssey, by retelling that epic from the point of view of Ulysses’ wife, the
titular Penelope (see: https://hollywoodprogressive.com/music/evening-with-renee-

In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the ‘imperialist bias' of the International Criminal Court (ICC).