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by Sarah Davis

Vice President Vance condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a majority of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Friday.

“Today, the Supreme Court decided that Congress, despite giving the president the ability to ‘regulate imports’, didn’t actually mean it,” Vance posted on the social platform X. “This is lawlessness from the Court, plain and simple. And its only effect will be to make it harder for the president to protect American industries and supply chain resiliency.

The vice president pointed to a “wide range of other tariff powers” still available to the president.

Vance’s statement echoed Trump’s remarks at the White House on Friday afternoon, when he said he was “ashamed of certain members of the court.”

A majority ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose steep tariffs on countries across the globe. The emergency measure grants the U.S. president the ability to place regulations on imports in response to “unusual and extraordinary” threats.

Two of the six justices in the majority opinion — Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch — were appointed by Trump.

The president criticized them in his Friday remarks to the press.

“I don’t want to say whether I regret nominating them. I think their decision was terrible,” Trump said. “I think it’s an embarrassment to their families.”

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed discontent with the Trump administration’s use of IEEPA to impose tariffs, pointing to Congress’ constitutional authority over federal taxation. A resolution calling for the cessation of Trump’s tariffs passed in the Senate last fall with bipartisan support.

Recent polling indicated that most Americans felt similarly, with 67 percent of respondents expressing their support for the Supreme Court to overturn these policies in a February survey.

A recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicated that U.S. businesses and consumers took on about 90 percent of the costs of these tariffs, despite claims from the White House that foreign countries would shoulder the majority of the financial burden.

Several Republican lawmakers have come out in support of the court’s decision Friday. Kentucky’s GOP Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell — who both voted in favor of passing the Senate resolution last October — commended the ruling.

Paul, who sponsored the resolution, called the ruling a “defense of our Republic” in a post on X.

McConnell said in a statement that the court’s decision leaves “no room for doubt” on the issue of Congress’s constitutional authority over tariffs.

“Congress’ role in trade policy, as I have warned repeatedly, is not an inconvenience to avoid,” McConnell said. “If the executive would like to enact trade policies that impact American producers and consumers, its path forward is crystal clear: convince their representatives under Article 1.”

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A delegation from the American feminist movement Code Pink, led by Medea Benjamin, arrived in Caracas as part of the Internationalist Mission for Peace.

They were received by Foreign Minister Yván Gil, symbolizing unity against external aggression. The activists seek to break the media and political siege imposed by Washington against Venezuela.

Foreign Minister Yván Gil welcomed the movement through his official channels, emphasizing that international support is essential at this crucial moment for the country.

Gil valued the courage of the activists who defy the interventionist policy of their own government to bring flags of brotherhood and respect for sovereignty.

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Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement has condemned recent comments by the US ambassador to the occupied territories, saying they reflected a colonialist mindset and demonstrated Washington’s alignment with “Zionist domination and annexation” projects.

In a statement on Saturday, Hamas said the remarks by Mike Huckabee constituted “a clear embodiment of the colonialist mentality upon which the Zionist movement was founded.”

The comments, it noted, “reveal the extent of the blatant American bias towards the projects of domination and annexation, in a flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter, and contempt for the sovereignty of the region's countries and the rights of their peoples.”

The reaction followed an interview aired on Friday in which Huckabee addressed the idea of the Israeli regime’s expanding across West Asia under the so-called “Greater Israel vision.”

They really sold the whole thing out huh

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At least 10 people were killed and 30 others were wounded in Israeli airstrikes on different areas in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley on Friday, February 20. 

The aerial raids were carried out hours after an Israeli drone strike had targeted a building in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon’s coastal city of Sidon, leaving two people killed and several others injured.

Material damage to the targeted facility and other nearby buildings was also reported, while local hospitals called for urgent blood donations to save those wounded in Ain al-Hilweh. 

Israeli media outlets claimed that the attacked facility was a Hamas command center. However, Lebanese media outlets said that it was previously used by the Joint Palestinian Security Forces, which is a coalition of armed members affiliated with various Palestinian factions, before being rented by an individual, who has recently converted it into a kitchen for food aid distribution. 

Friday’s attacks are part of the continuous Israeli violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty and the ceasefire deal, which Israel reached with Hezbollah in November 2024.

For many, the renewed onslaughts also expose Israel’s recurring efforts to destroy the morale of the peoples of the West Asia region during Ramadan.

It is worth noting that the Lebanese state filed a complaint with the United Nations last January, detailing a total of 2,036 violations committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in Lebanon only during the last quarter of 2025. 

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Looks like this wild story got buried during all the Epstein news, because it's the first I'm hearing of it. I'm sure it's not a coincidence that it makes Xi look good.

After a working class revolution here in the USA, it will be absolutely necessary to investigate every single mansion and to double-check every child living in them for signs of abuse.

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Iran officially warned in a letter to the UN on 19 February that US military bases across West Asia will become “legitimate targets” if the Islamic Republic comes under attack by Washington.

“Iran has repeatedly stated at the highest level that it neither seeks tension nor war and will not initiate any war. However, in the event that it is subjected to military aggression, Iran will respond decisively and proportionately in the exercise of its inherent right of self-defense under Article 51 of the Charter of the UN,” said Iranian representative Saeed Iravani.

“In such circumstances, all bases, facilities, and assets of the hostile force in the region would constitute legitimate targets in the context of Iran's defensive response. The US would bear full and direct responsibility for any unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences,” he added, addressing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President of the UN Security Council James Kariuki.

Iravani also condemned “the repeated and explicit US threats of the use of force, including references to potential military operations launched from Diego Garcia and other regional bases.”