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[ad_1] US Central Command said reports that the Navy is escorting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported speaking with US military officials who said the Navy quietly resumed the operation to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier this month, Trump launched Project Freedom, a military operation where the Navy would aid commercial ships attempting to transit the Strait without approval from Tehran. The operation quickly collapsed after Saudi Arabia and other US allies pulled their support. Just hours after The Wall Street Journal first reported the news, CENTCOM said there…

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[ad_1] Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated the incumbent Senator John Cornyn Tuesday in a hotly contested primary runoff election.  President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton last Tuesday after a long wait. Paxton will go on to face State Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin) in the general election on November 3.  Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox In March, neither Republican candidate reached the needed majority of primary votes, leading to the runoff election. On March 5, Paxton offered to drop out of the runoff election if Cornyn and Senate leadership abolished the filibuster to pass the SAVE…

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[ad_1] A professor makes a $500 campaign donation and suddenly gets cast as the “most important man in America” pulling congressional strings. That absurd story is the perfect doorway into what we really care about here: how narratives get manufactured, why propaganda works, and what it’s doing to both domestic politics and foreign policy. We start with science diplomacy and cultural diplomacy, the old-school idea that researchers, students, artists, and athletes can keep human ties alive even when governments can’t stand each other. Joe explains how that cooperative model is being redefined across the West into something closer to state…

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[ad_1] Spoiler: it’s not China. In this episode of Breaking Free of Psyops, I trace North America’s drug crisis from the British Empire’s original opium wars through the CIA’s Air America heroin pipeline, Afghan poppy fields guarded by Western troops, and the Sackler family’s OxyContin empire. We review how Afghan opium production exploded the moment US forces arrived in 2001 and collapsed again the moment the Taliban returned in 2023, a fact the Pentagon’s trillion-dollar budget apparently could not replicate. We also review some of the actual proven players fueling today’s fentanyl crisis: Khalistani organized crime networks in British Columbia,…

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[ad_1] A semi-official Iranian outlet reported that Tehran is demanding that Washington agree to release $24 billion in frozen funds as part of an agreement to end the war.  According to an official speaking with Tasnim, Iran is requesting that half of the funds, $12 billion, be released as soon as an agreement to end the war is signed. Multiple outlets report that Washington and Tehran are closing in on signing a memorandum of understanding.  The MOU would bring hostilities in the Middle East, including Lebanon, to a close. Additionally, Washington would lift its blockade of Iranian ports, and Tehran…

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