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[ad_1] Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In April 2025, a Dutch government official organised a networking event for Israeli investors in Tel Aviv. More than 50,000 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza. The International Criminal Court (ICC) had issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister and Defence Minister. She put the photographs on LinkedIn. Six months later, she left the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) and joined Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), a fund built from the alumni network of Unit 8200, Israel’s military signals intelligence unit, whose flagship exit ran through a no-employee Dutch shell company and ended in a $25 billion acquisition. Nobody wrote about it. Three…

[ad_1] It seems the United States is looking at a reinvigorated COINTELPRO for the 2020s, this time with police drones and AI-assisted mass surveillance. They know they’re losing their grip. They know that they are vastly outnumbered. They are afraid.   The ghost of J. Edgar Hoover emanates from the Congressional Cemetery in Washington. (Smallbones/Wikimedia) By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s NewsletterListen to Tim Foley read this article. The Trump administration has announced a renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know that the word “terrorism” only ever means “behavior which goes against the agendas of the western empire.” The United…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: US Department of Labor – Public Domain It’s hard for me to write about Neera Tanden. Primarily because I cannot stand her smug face, her grating voice, or her haughty demeanor. Still, I’ll try to put those physical prejudices aside and focus solely on Neera in her professional capacity as a perpetually employed defender of the Democratic Party’s corporate-driven status quo. For it is there, on both a moral and ethical level, where Neera Tanden is a singularly repulsive human being. What does Neera Tanden stand for? As President and CEO of the Center for American Progress,…

[ad_1] It had appeared the U.S. was defying Israel by ending the war with Iran. But now full scale conflict is back and Israel is happy. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, 8 pm EDT, Tonite. Guests: Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan Also: Did Epstein Play a Role?;  Zelensky Sacks Drone Minister and the Trump Administration Declares War on Phantom Left-wing Terrorism. Please Donate toCN’s SummerFund Drive!   [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In less than one week, ICE agents killed twice. Neither victim was the man they were looking for. And each time their excuses made no sense. But the killings served a purpose: terrorizing immigrant communities, in pursuit of Trump’s white nationalist agenda. On July 7 in Houston, masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves stopped and shot to death Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52 year old Mexican national and father of three. Araujo had lived in the United States for 35 years and had applied to obtain legal status. He was on his way…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In an era of high prices for fuel, food, and housing, an extra $4,000 could make a life-saving difference for many families. But instead, that’s what the average household had to shell out for the Pentagon last year. That’s right: The average U.S. taxpayer in 2025 had over $4,000 taken out of their paychecks to fund the Pentagon, according to the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. In the coming years, that amount is set to rise as Congress considers a $1.5 trillion war budget for 2027. For the growing number of working poor…

[ad_1] The Ivy Mike test of the first hydrogen bomb took place Nov. 1, 1952 in the South Pacific. Far more devastating than the atomic bombs that preceded it, the race to the hydrogen bomb was triggered by another event that took place this day 81 years ago, July 16, 1945, when the first atomic weapon was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico. That set off a logic of power that would place humanity’s future at risk, a danger only increasing in our world today. Today is the 81st anniversary of the most fateful day in the 300,000 years of our…

[ad_1] Tower Falls, Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. For several years, I have advocated for expanding Yellowstone National Park to create a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem National Park. There are many reasons to expand Yellowstone’s boundaries to include much of the surrounding national forest and other public lands that make up the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has global significance. Yellowstone is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, recognized for its ecological diversity, conservation efforts and significant geological features. If Yellowstone and the surrounding lands are to survive as a functioning ecosystem, we must recognize that the entire region is under multiple…

[ad_1] The American Empire is the safest country in history.  Among other things, we sport more than the 5,000 nuclear warheads shielded from outside inspection; a multitrillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex; nonstop surveillance of the entire population; special forces in 70–80 countries; NATO and defense pacts with Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the Philippines; a de facto alliance with Israel; and pioneering AI to optimize the lethality of weapons.  Nobody goes to bed in the United States fearing an invasion or military attack.  Yet we are poised to hike Pentagon spending to $1.5 trillion annually, excluding the VA budget, which approaches $500…

[ad_1] Andy Burnham’s first speech as leader of the Labour Party today told us little about what he intends to do when he becomes UK prime minister Monday and everything about his penchant for platitudes. And his tendency to repeat himself. He reaffirmed his promise to deliver “good growth in every postcode and hope in every heart.” And, no doubt, a chicken in every pot. What this means in practice is no clearer now than when he first uttered it last month. He is going to “build a new politics,” abolish “factionalism,” end “point-scoring” in political discourse.  Burnham promises to…