The trump DOJ rejects the idea that the ICC has jurisdiction.
We did not sign the Rome Statute.
Today's left and center left positions are close to the Eisenhower positions he advocated for when he ran in 1956.
Those were mainstream republican policies then.
The GOP has moved sharply to the right.
![Israel and the Iran-Contra Scandal: How Neocons Messed Up the Mideast
26/9/2019
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Special Report: Newly available documents reveal how Ronald Reagan’s neocon aides cleared the way for Israeli arm sales to Iran in 1981, shortly after Iran freed 52 U.S. hostages whose captivity doomed Jimmy Carter’s reelection. The move also planted the seeds of the Iran-Contra scandal.
Just six months after Iran freed 52 Americans hostages in 1981, senior Reagan administration officials secretly endorsed third-party weapons sales to Iran, a move to align U.S. policy with Israeli desires to sell arms to the Islamic republic then at war with Iraq, according to documents recently released by the National Archives.
This Israeli arms pipeline to Iran already was functioning at the time of the policy shift on July 21, 1981. Three days earlier, on July 18, an Argentine plane strayed off course and crashed (or was shot down) inside the Soviet Union exposing Israel’s secret arms shipments to Iran, which apparently had been going on for months.
After the plane went down, Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East Nicholas Veliotes tried to get to the bottom of the mysterious weapons flight. “According to the [flight] documents,” Veliotes said later in an interview with PBS Frontline, “this was chartered by Israel and it was carrying American military equipment to Iran. …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4dvhpeb7vpm6m2iwyyarjw3/bafkreic2hl5q7ffqgqndsku3v5233fyzuapxatkaymtscldjh4oqcvw7ey)
![In the 2025 session, the Legislature has filed SB 918 and HB 1225, “Employment of Minors.” The proposed rollbacks to child labor laws would pose an even greater risk to the health and well-being of Florida youth than those contained in the original version of HB 49. (See Table 1.)
If passed, SB 918 would allow employers during the school year to:
Schedule any 16- and 17-year-old Floridian for unlimited hours and days without breaks.
Schedule 14- and 15-year-old Floridians who have graduated high school or are home- or virtual-school students for unlimited hours and days without breaks.
Similarly, HB 1225 would allow employers during the school year to:[1]
Schedule any 16- and 17-year-old Floridian for unlimited days without breaks.
Schedule 14- and 15-year-old Floridians who have graduated high school or are home- or virtual-school students for unlimited hours and days without breaks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4dvhpeb7vpm6m2iwyyarjw3/bafkreiegpsnxwbgpxr5knwrh7oxnnkkan4y3iylxey4yrha22zeze6jn5i)
![“Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times. He asked at one point if we have them, why can’t we use them,” Scarborough said on Wednesday’s edition of “Morning Joe.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4dvhpeb7vpm6m2iwyyarjw3/bafkreiau7phuadt52jxvpktravpsp3dfrwbxsgpoxkmp4ihfhdhf5gnmey)
