As the Senate votes to acquit former President Donald Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, we speak with constitutional lawyer and former Reagan administration official Bruce Fein, who says the insurrection was not just an attack on the U.S. Capitol, but “an effort, basically, to destroy the rule of law and the Constitution itself.” Fein says failure to convict Trump will give license to future presidents to break the law. “It really is quite frightening that now we have a precedent that says a president has the right to do anything he wants, that he wishes to, without sanction,” he tells Democracy Now! “That is no longer the rule of law.”

We cannot be born just any time but need to find a time and place that suits our souls progress.

Donald Trump has turned out to inflicting genocide and our country here in the U.S. will always be remembered for it.

Trump blows up an entire Iranian family with a giant bomb, killing children and orphaning more kids in a heinous crime against humanity!

Months after sparking international outrage early in the Iran conflict by wiping out an entire girls’ school, a new New York Times investigation concluded that the U.S. military dropped one of its largest bombs in its arsenal on a family home in a densely populated Iranian neighborhood, killing a husband, wife and their 2-year-old son.

The Times' visual investigation of videos, photographs and satellite imagery indicates the strike on a heavily populated residential neighborhood called Qeshm Island was carried out with a 2,000-pound Mark-84 bomb equipped with a U.S.-made guidance kit.

The blast, which was nowhere near any military target, destroyed multiple homes, displaced roughly 20 neighboring families and left two surviving children trapped the rubble before they were miraculously rescued. The intended military target remains unknown.

"We are aware of the reports and looking into them," a spokesman for U.S. Central Command said, adding that "the U.S. military never targets civilians."

But the size of the weapon and where it was used are already drawing scrutiny from weapons experts and legal scholars. Trevor Ball, a former U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal technician, confirmed the crater and recovered bomb fragments are consistent with a 2,000-pound Mark-84 bomb.

Stanford law professor Tom Dannenbaum said using a munition of that size in a tightly packed residential neighborhood is "very difficult to reconcile" with the military's obligation under international humanitarian law to minimize civilian harm.

The tragedy also revives questions that have followed Trump's Iran war from the beginning. The administration promised a swift campaign that would force Iran to back down within a matter of weeks.

Instead, half a year later, the conflict continues, ceasefire efforts have faltered, and another civilian family is dead while U.S. officials once again investigate whether enough was done to protect innocent lives.

Wars are measured not only by destruction wrought , but by the human cost left behind. 

Every time another investigation begins with the words "we're looking into it," the same question grows harder to ignore: if this war has become open-ended, how many more families will find themselves exploding with the next bomb?

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BREAKING: SHOCKER! Nearly HALF of Americans say Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested while he's in the United States, new poll finds!

A new Economist/YouGov poll vividly illustrates that American opinion has shifted dramatically against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with 49 percent saying the United States should arrest him if he is in the country under the International Criminal Court's warrant accusing him of war crimes.

The survey also found that 47 percent of Americans believe Netanyahu is guilty of war crimes in Gaza, compared with 24 percent who do not. Even among Republicans, nearly one in four said he should be arrested, while 19 percent of self-identified MAGA supporters said they believe he is guilty of war crimes.

The findings come as the ICC warrant continues to follow Netanyahu wherever he travels. The court accuses him of intentionally targeting civilians and using starvation as a weapon of war, allegations his government denies.

Netanyahu acknowledged this week that the warrant weighs on his mind. During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, he was asked what would happen if a medical emergency forced his plane to land in a country that recognizes the ICC.

"I think about it," Netanyahu replied. "We have special forces..."

Neither the United States nor Israel recognizes the ICC's authority, making an arrest on American soil highly unlikely.

But the new poll suggests many Americans have already reached their own conclusion.

Nearly half say Netanyahu should be arrested if he is in the United States, and nearly the same number believe he has committed war crimes.

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