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Tribal nations celebrate 150th anniversary of victory at Greasy Grass by Shirley Sneve and Kevin Abourezk A rider performs during a re-enactment of the Battle of Greasy Grass near the Little Bighorn National Monument and near where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry troops met their end. The re-enactment took place on private land as part of commemoration events marking the 150th anniversary of the battle. (Kevin Abourezk/ICT) Source: ICT and AP. CROW AGENCY, Montana – Thousands from across the continent flocked to the rolling plains along the Little Bighorn River where 150 years ago to the day Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer met his demise at what U.S. schoolchildren know as the Battle of Little Bighorn or Custer’s Last Stand – but Native Nations know as Greasy Grass. “You know, Custer planned [a large-scale attack on tribes gathered along the river] because he wanted to be president,” said Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out. “And so news was supposed to hi...

  The West gave Iran a name — theocracy — and buried the reality beneath it. They never told you that Khomeini spent decades mastering one of the most rigorous legal traditions in human history, or that he built a constitutional republic ratified by 98% of the Iranian people in a free referendum. A nation of fanatics can be bombed with a clear conscience. A constitutional republic of 93 million people, founded by a supremely gifted jurist, is harder to dispose of. Read what they did not want you to know.   What They Never Told You: Ayatollah Khomeini Was a Great Jurist, Not a Fanatic                                By Lim Tean I want to tell you something that may surprise you. Iran has a constitution. It has an elected parliament. It has a president chosen by popular vote. It has a supreme court. It has a body analogous to a constitutional review council. It has institutional checks between competi...

America’s Drums of War: White House Issues War Threat Against Iran Israel, Washington’s closest ally in the Middle East, is armed to the teeth with the aid and assistance of the United States, and has built its own substantial nuclear arsenal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who bitterly opposed the 2015 nuclear agreement, immediately condemned the Iranian missile test on Monday. He said he would press the Trump administration to renew economic sanctions on Tehran when he visits Washington this month. By  Mint Press News Desk  |  February 3, 2017 Trump’s War On Iran / Cartoon by Carlos Latuff For MintPress The original source of this article is  World Socialist Web Site Copyright ©  Peter Symonds ,  World Socialist Web Site , 2017 In an extraordinarily bellicose statement Wednesday, US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn accused Iran of “destabilising behaviour across the Middle East” and warned, “As of t...

  Ireland News Today, Tuesday 23 June 2026 Truth News Ireland  Here are the main stories making headlines across Ireland right now: 1. Jeffrey Donaldson Found Guilty Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, 63, was convicted Monday at Newry Crown Court of one count of rape, 13 counts of indecent assault and four counts of gross indecency against two women when they were children, between 1985 and 2008. He denied all charges. Donaldson, who led the DUP from 2021 to 2024 and was NI’s longest-serving MP, stepped down after his arrest in March 2024. He spent his first night in Maghaberry Prison and faces a “lengthy” prison term at sentencing. His wife Eleanor was found to have aided and abetted him but was ruled unfit to stand trial.  An Taoiseach Micheál Martin called the crimes “ evil and horrific ”. 2. Heatwave Hits Ireland Met Éireann says Ireland is in the middle of an “ atypically hot spell ”. Temperatures are set to hit 30C in some areas, with sunny, dry conditions for...

  Jeffrey Donaldson :  From Longest-Serving NI MP to Convicted Sex Offender Sir Jeffrey Donaldson  Sir Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, born 7 December 1962 in Kilkeel, County Down, was one of Northern Ireland’s most prominent unionist politicians for nearly 40 years. His career ended in June 2026 when he was convicted of historic child sex offences.  Political Career Early years and UUP:  Donaldson became politically active at 18. He worked as election agent for Enoch Powell in the 1980s and was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1985 at age 22, the youngest person to win a seat at Stormont at the time. He served in the Ulster Defence Regiment from 1981-1985.  MP for Lagan Valley:   First elected to the UK House of Commons in 1997, he held the Lagan Valley seat for 27 years, making him Northern Ireland’s longest-serving MP at the time of his arrest. He was a key member of the Ulster Unionist Party negotiating team during the 1998 Good Friday Agree...

  Global Warming, Sea Levels, and Ireland .  Flooded Cork    How Global Warming and Sea Level Rise Will Permanently Reshape Coastal Regions ! Coastlines have always been dynamic, but human-caused global warming is accelerating change in ways that will leave them unrecognizable to future generations. The physics is straightforward: as Earth warms, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica melt, and seawater expands as it heats. Together, they push sea levels up. The consequences cascade through ecology, economy, and culture. 1. More Land Lost to the Sea Since 1900, global average sea level has risen about 20-25 cm. The rate has doubled in the last 20 years. By 2100, projections from IPCC range from 0.3m to over 1m of rise depending on future emissions. That doesn’t sound like much, but on a flat coast, 30 cm can push the high-tide line inland by tens of meters.  For low-lying regions like the Netherlands, Bangladesh, and Pacific atoll nations, this means permanent l...