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No other military power is segmented into areas of responsibility spanning every continent on earth. This is because normal military forces are used to defend the actual, official country they belong to, whereas the U.S. military is used to dominate the entire planet. By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s NewsletterListen to Tim Foley read this article. The U.S. is bombing Iran again after an American attack helicopter was downed over the Strait of Hormuz amid renewed escalations in the conflict. CENTCOM said the following in a statement on the airstrikes: “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at…

In September 2025, then-US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr Marty Makary publicly acknowledged that the agency was investigating reports of child deaths following Covid-19 vaccination. “We do know at the FDA…that there had been children who have died from the COVID vaccine,” Makary said during a CNN interview. By that stage, however, a fierce internal dispute had already emerged inside the FDA over what investigators believed the evidence showed — and whether the public should ever see the full findings. “It really did feel like there was some sort of cover-up going on about the Covid-19 vaccines,” said one…

The Art of No Iran Deal Source link

From Taibbi v. Kamlager-Dove, decided Monday by Judge Evelyn Padin (D.N.J.): Representative Kamlager-Dove … is … the Ranking Member of the South and Central Asia Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee …. The Subcommittee held a hearing on April 1, 2025, titled “Censorship Industrial Complex: The Need for First Amendment Safeguards at the State Department” …. Taibbi was invited to testify at the Hearing. At the start of the Hearing, Representative Kamlager-Dove delivered her prepared remarks, which included the following statements: Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for being here for our first South and Central Asia Subcommittee…

Photograph Source: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – Public Domain U.S. President Donald Trump, Reuters reports, is “looking into” a US government stake in leading artificial intelligence firms. “There’s something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public,” Trump says. This isn’t his first such initiative. Since beginning his second term, Trump has announced 15 such “equity stake” deals between the US government and various companies, at least ten of which have so far been formally consummated. This time, though, his logic differs somewhat. He’s justified previous “equity stake” agreements on alleged national security…

Did Skid Row Voters Help Skew LA Election for Mayor? Source link

Anthony L. Fisher: The South Carolina congresswoman and failed gubernatorial candidate briefly stood up to Trump after he incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But that was then. Source link

‘It’s hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state’ Source link

Cleaning Up Biden's Obamacare Subsidy Fraud Source link

Photograph Source: Matt Hrkac – CC BY 2.0 Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country indifferent, even scoffing, about the need for an inquiry into its merits. Unsurprisingly, both the US and UK inquiries have found much to merit the project – Australian taxpayer money has sluiced and soothed the submarine industrial base of both countries – but have also expressed concern about their respective production rates of nuclear-powered submarines. While the first pillar of the agreement promises, with mighty emptiness, that the Royal…