“When he asks these NATO countries to increase their military expenditure, he means 'buy more U.S. weapons.' That’s what he is doing. He’s a salesperson for the military-industrial complex.”
AMY GOODMAN: I’m Amy Goodman with Nermeen Shaikh. This is Democracy Now!.
US President Donald Trump claims American bombers carried out airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
One rights group found Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 639 people, and wounded double that number. One of the victims was the Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi, who was killed alongside family members in Tehran days ahead of her 24th birthday.
In Memphis Tennessee, the NAACP has announced plans to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm, xAI, for violating the Clean Air Act by running a massive data center near a historically Black neighborhood without legal permits. Musk’s facility runs on 35 methane gas-powered turbine generators, which emit significant amounts of nitrogen oxide and other toxic chemicals.
Here in New York, ICE agents arrested New York City Comptroller Brad Lander on Tuesday as he was escorting a man at an immigration courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Lander, who is running for mayor, was handcuffed and detained by agents after he demanded to see a judicial warrant as agents tried to detain the man he was accompanying.
