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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion on Kennedy v. Bremerton that “the Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike.” The case was about whether there was a problem with a Washington state assistant football coach leading (i.e. requiring) prayers—Christian prayers, lest you be confused—in the locker room before games and on the field. ... Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at coverage of Supreme Court nominees.

Kahn is emeritus professor of health policy at the University of California San Francisco. He is an expert in evidence-based medicine and medical decision-making, and a leading researcher in U.S. and global health economics, with more than 200 academic publications. He is also the editor and primary blogger for Health Justice Monitor (http://healthjusticemonitor.org ), and a coauthor of a recent study finding that universal health coverage in the U.S. could have saved 338,000 lives just from COVID-19.

Lianys Torres Rivera is the first woman from Cuba to be named Chargé d’Affaires to the United States. Prior to her appointment in December 2020, she served as Cuba’s Ambassador to Viet Nam. From 2015 to 2017, she was part of the Cuban delegation who met with the US government authorities to discuss the re-establishment of diplomatic relations and the re-opening of embassies in both countries. She was also part of the Cuba-US Bilateral Commission, the Cuba-US Bilateral Economic Dialogue, and other Cuba-US bilateral dialogues on regulatory issues, human rights, traffic in persons, the establishment of direct postal services, renewable energy, and banking issues.

"In my latest Under The Skin podcast I spoke with Indian scholar, food sovereignty advocate and environmental activist Vandana Shiva. In this video she speaks about Bill Gates's book, the colonisation of land and food production. However, she provides us with hopeful and powerful words of advice that might help us challenge these tech giants and monopolies. ..."

Elon Musk makes billions from the government to colonize space.

Today we revisit the struggle of pro-Palestinian activists in the United States who try counter the well-funded attempts by the pro-Israel Lobby to silence criticism of Israel. We focus on the efforts of two organizations that provide legal resources to support the organizing efforts of pro Palestinian activists who resist efforts to silence them: The American Civil Liberties Union and Palestine Legal. In a forum at the Washington Press Club, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs featured Yousef Munayyer of the Middle East Institute, Brian House from the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, and Meera Shah, Senior Staff attorney at Palestine Legal.

The title song was written for the creative, bovine, act of civil disobedience in Beit Sahour, Palestine.

The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future. Melzer is the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture. The book is a comprehensive accounting of the multiple tortures inflicted on Assange, past and ongoing, and of Melzer's meticulous monumental efforts to engage with the torturers for a period of 2 years. Slighted at every turn, he wrote this impressive book. For a detailed summary, go to https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Julian-Assange-Story-Persecution-ebook/dp/B094GP2SLN .

"Cristina" grew up at the corner of Reform and Communion Streets in Havana. She summarizes the cruel history Cubans have endured at the hands of hostile U.S. "leaders." Sanctions have been inflicted on Cubans, cranked up hard by the Trump administration and left that way by Biden. This has meant that medical patients who desperately need oxygen or complex procedures cannot get them, and preventable deaths have ensued. She points out that Cubans are peace-loving and mean no harm to anybody, but somehow are regarded as a threat to the U.S. ...

This week on 9/11 Free Fall, AE911Truth's director of strategy, Ted Walter, joins host Andy Steele to discuss the latest development — and the path forward — in the now-decade-long effort to publish an important paper on the Twin Towers' destruction in the ASCE's Journal of Engineering Mechanics. ASCE's leaders appear determined to continue relying on the faulty Bazant study and simply reject any science-based criticism or opposing studies.

"Journalist Mika Brzezinski claims that Trump's biggest as president was that he was not allowed to watch porn in the White House."