Bulletin N° 1210

 

“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (2024)

https://kolektiva.media/w/7p2KjG548boJMYWN6kZjK6

(2:30:11)

by Johan Grimonprez

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode

that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.

This 2024 documentary film directed by Johan Grimonprez about the Cold War episode that led American musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council

in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

It features excerpts from My Country, Africa by Andrée Blouin, Congo Inc. by In Koli Jean Bofane, To Katanga and Back by Conor Cruise O'Brien, and audio memoirs by Nikita Khrushchev.

The film had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 22.

It won the André Cavens Award for Best Film from the Belgian Film Critics Association. At the 97th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film.

The film has also won Best Art Film at the Rose d'Or awards in 2025 and was considered the third best documentary of all time by Harper's Bazaar.

 

One February morning in 1961, singer Abbey Lincoln and drummer Max Roach protested at the UN Security Council after the murder of Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the newly independent Congo. Sixty yelling protesters throw punches, slam their stilettos, and provoke a skirmish with unprepared guards as diplomats look on in shock.

Six months earlier, sixteen newly independent African countries are admitted to the United Nations, shifting the majority vote away from the old colonial powers. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaks in opposition to the neo-colonial power grab unfolding in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (modern DR Congo). Denouncing America's color bar and UN complicity in the overthrow of Lumumba, he demands immediate decolonization worldwide.

To retain control over the riches of what used to be the Belgian Congo, King Baudouin of Belgium finds an ally in the Eisenhower administration, which fears losing access to one of the world's biggest known reserves of uranium, a metal vital for the creation of atomic bombs. Congo-Léopoldville takes center stage to both the Cold War and the scheme for control of the UN. The U.S. State Department swings into action: jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong is dispatched to win the hearts and minds of Africa. Unwittingly, Armstrong becomes a smokescreen to divert attention from Africa's first post-colonial coup, leading to the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected leader. Malcolm X stands up in open support of Lumumba and his efforts to create a United States of Africa while also reframing the freedom struggle of African Americans as one not for civil rights, but for human rights, aiming to bring his case before the UN.

As Black jazz ambassadors are performing unaware amidst covert CIA operatives, the likes of Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Melba Liston face a painful dilemma: how to represent a country where segregation is still the law of the land.

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this forgotten episode of the Cold War, where the greatest musicians stepped onto the political stage, and politicians lent their voices as inadvertent lead singers. This story of the undermining of African self-determination is told from the perspective of Central African Republic women's rights activist and politician Andrée Blouin, Irish diplomat and enfant terrible Conor Cruise O'Brien, Belgian-Congolese writer In Koli Jean Bofane, and Nikita Khrushchev.

 

 

 

 

Subject : Aesthetics Stand Against Grotesque Distortions of Reality.

 

 

Grenoble, France

August 29, 2026

 

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

 

Rereading Ernst Fischer’s 1959 book, The Necessity of Art, A Marxist Approach, I’ve made many discoveries recently, not the least of which, to quote Fischer, is that: "Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it."

 

The final chapter of this richly endowed book is entitled “The Loss and Discovery of Reality,” where the author makes one of many provocative discoveries that echo through hollow shell of today’s alienated existence. He writes:

 

Ludwig Tieck, the German Romantic, first spoke of the ‘loss of reality’ in the preface to his edition of Heinrich von Kleist’s works. This ‘loss of reality’, only dimly sensed in the Romantic age, has grown into a central problem in the highly industrialized late capitalist world.

 

The industrialized, commercialized capitalist world has become an outside world of impenetrable material connections and relationships. The man living in the midst of that world is alienated from it and from himself. Modern art and literature are often reproached with ‘destroying reality’. Such tendencies exist; but really it is not the writers or the painters who have abolished reality. A reality belonging to the day before yesterday, a reality that long ago became its own ghost, is being conserved in a rigid framework of phrases, prejudices, and hypocrisy. The end-product of a vast machinery of research, investigations, analyses, statistics, conferences, reports, and headlines is the comic strip, the embodiment of an illusory world of Everyman and No-man.

 

Illusion displaces contradiction. The outcome of a multitude of ‘points of view’ is a hideous uniformity of minds. The answer precedes the question. A few dozen clichés, some of which were once reflections of  reality, are served up again and again. Today they are as much like reality as an oil king is like a holy picture.

 

‘I am convinced,’ wrote the Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, ‘that happenings no longer happen; instead, the clichés operate spontaneously. Things have become too much for people, the means too much for the ends, the tools too much for their producers.’

 

Once again [Karl Kraus wrote about the press] a tool has got out of our control. We have set the man who is meant

to report the fire –a man who should surely play the most subordinate part in the whole State- above the State,

above the fire and the burning house, above fact and above our imagination.

 

                

That was written half a century ago. Since then the process of ‘destroying reality’ has made alarming advances.Many of the sincerest and most gifted artists and writers in the capitalist world are conscious of this loss of reality. They refuse to be led astray by outdated formulas and catchpenny phrases. They refuse to accept the system forced upon them by the ruling ‘public opinion’ as reality; they insist on seeing things ‘as they are’. They detest all forms of propaganda, distrust all ideologies, they go out in search of reality beyond the illusory world of pseudo-facts, phrases, and conventions. They are determined to speak only of what they can see, hear, touch, or directly perceive. They cling to the smallest detail, the visible, audible, unchallengeable ‘real’ detail. Anything that goes beyond such details is suspect to them. Out of them they try, cautiously and without comment, to reconstruct reality. The widespread movement of neo-positivism is not wholly negative: it corresponds in part to a wish for unprejudiced sincerity.

 

In his fight against the fulsomeness of the late bourgeois novel and in his search for economy, purity, and lightness of form, Franz Kafka developed a narrative method whereby tiny details are linked together to make faint contours that hint at reality.

This principle of allowing the status of reality only to the ‘small true fact, the true detail’ … has been carried to an extreme in the French ‘anti-novel. Detail follows detail, two-dimensionally, without perspective, without ever going beyond the Here and Now.

This emphasized detachment and coldness are a refusal to recognize any priority among objects, feelings, or events. The consequence of such understatement is, however, that material relationships acquire exaggerated power (almost as in the romantic ‘tragedies of fate’ where human destinies were governed by mysterious objects).

In several respects, the method of the ‘anti-novel’ seems to be connected with the rise of cybernetics, the study of self-regulating dynamic systems. The existence of (learning’, ‘thinking’, self-improvement machines has given encouragement to behaviorism and neo-positivism. The difference between human beings and these dialectical machines must now be formulated, the nature of man must now be grasped afresh, and dialectical materialism must now be expanded and made more precise. Machines which, it has been calculated by cybernetics, are possible and which, in part, have already been made, frequently behave as though they had consciousness, although in fact conscious machines cannot and do not exist. Leading cyberneticists therefore consider consciousness to be irrelevant or even fictitious; what they describe is solely the behavior of a system. W. Ross Ashby, who with Norbert Wiener is the leader of modern cybernetics, writes in Design for a Brain:

 

     Throughout the book, consciousness and is related subjective elements are not used, for the simple reason that at no point have I found their introduction necessary…. Vivid though consciousness may be to its possessor, there is as yet no method known by which he can demonstrate his experience to another.

 

I do not wish to recapitulate here all the argument between neo-positivism and dialectical materialism, but only to point out how closely the ‘anti-novel’ corresponds to these neo-positivistic ideas and to what a striking extent the people in these novels are reduced to the ‘black box’ of cybernetics, where only the relations of input and output matter and never the nature and essence of man. False philosophical conclusions from the revolutionary discoveries of cybernetics have linked up with a literary method which, in certain individual instances, may be as useful as behaviorism is in science but which, as a whole, not only describes the dehumanization of man but actually invests this dehumanization with the character of inescapable finality.

 

The method of the ‘anti-novel’ does not regain lost reality. In place of empty phrases and prefabricated conventional associations it puts forward details drained of all meaning and entirely disconnected sensory impressions. In rejecting the pseudo-facts of newspaper headlines, this literature has discarded facts altogether. All that is concrete dissolves; figures grope in a chaotic primeval fog, and there is for them no forwards nor backwards but only a timeless, directionless ‘existence’. The official illusory world has been replaced by a private yet no less ghostly one. The intention is to represent uncomprehended being, the ‘timeless’ being of man in a timeless darkness. But ‘being in itself is not yet real’, wrote Hegel; ‘only what has been comprehended is real’. And Marx: ‘Only the comprehended world as such is reality.’ A literature which deliberately rejects comprehension lacks the decisive edge of realty. The unreality that is its content may have come out of protest against the standardized illusory world: but in fact it is only the shadow of that world.

 

Some writers who also set out from the precisely observed detail nevertheless go beyond a world where everything has been frozen into an object or a fixed state. J. D. Salinger is such a writer. He too uses the behaviorist method, portraying the behavior of people through a sequence of petty details. Here is a passage taken at random from Fanny and Zooey:

 

   Ten-thirty on a Monday morning in November 1955, Zooey Glass, a young man of twenty-five, was seated in a very full bath, reading a four-year-old letter. It was an almost endless-looking letter, type-written on several pages of second-sheet yellow paper, and he was having some little troupe keeping it propped up against the two dry islands of his knees. At his right, a dampish-looking cigarette was balanced on the edge of the built-in enamel soap-catch, and evidently it was burning well enough, for every now and then he picked it off and took a drag or two, without quite having to look up from his letter. His ashes invariably fell into the tub water, either straightway or down one of the letter pages. He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement. He did seem aware, though, if only just, that the heat of the water was beginning to have a dehydrating effect on him. The longer he sat reading –or re-reading- the more often and less absently he used the back of his wrist to blot his forehead and upper lip….

 

Yet out of such a mosaic of details, gestures, snatches of conversation, faintly outlined situations, Salinger creates a maximum of atmosphere and discovers fresh aspects of psychological and social reality. His stories are without comment and without propaganda, yet they are exciting and gripping in an unusual way, perhaps for that very reason. In Salinger reality is newly discovered through the medium of young people sickened by the world that surrounds them and engaged, in one way and another, in search for the meaning of life. It is the new and extraordinarily subtle form of social criticism, going far outside and beyond the behaviorism of the ‘anti-novel’, that makes Salinger’s work so valuable and attractive. The world is seen though the eyes of children or very young people: that is why it appears, not as a conventional system to be circumscribed by ready-made phrases, but as an unexpected and shocking reality. A similarly example is the film Zazie dans le Métro (based on Raymond Queneau’s novel), where a little girl from the provinces discovers the grown-up world of Paris, the ghastly relity of a system where a toy turns into a bomb, a match can blast the ground shy-high, house-fronts collapse, and Fascist terror, murder, and fear creep out of the ruins. And when, at the end, the mother returning from her rendezvous with her lover asks the little girl how she has spent the day, Zazie replies with better scorn: ‘J’ai vieilli.’ The positive, unforgettably beautiful counterpart to this bitter film showing a child’s discovery of the capitalist world with all its fantastic antagonisms is the Soviet film A Man Goes Towards the Sun, in which another child discovers the world of growing socialism. These two films should be shown together all over the world. They would provide the strongest possible proof of two things: of the colossal contrast between the two worlds, seen unconventionally, without propaganda or false pathos; and of the overwhelming possibility of presenting both worlds with similar methods of modern art.

 

Many modern artists and writers share the belief that modern reality has nothing whatever to do with the available range of cliché images: that it is necessary to discover new situations characteristic of our time, and to build up a supply of new, powerful, unhackneyed images.

(pp.197-202)

 

 

The 26+ items below are articles and essays taken from contemporary Anglophone social media which reflect the pressing issues in the reality of today’s world. The criticisms, comments, and analysis contained in these publications reflect the complex realities behind the massive collaboration with unspeakable criminal activities on the part of corrupt leadership. Taking control of the nation-state and placing it in the hands of the ordinary people to serve the interests of ordinary people is clearly a much needed discussion. The cowardice and fear generated by the corporate capitalist state and its cronies is obscene and unacceptable.

 

Accountability is in order!

Power to the People!

 

 

Sincerely,

Francis McCollum Feeley

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Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org

 

 

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a.

“The Insane Deplorable Conditions on the USS Lincoln & USS Washington”

https://www.bitchute.com/video/R1nnpBISZ8N0

by TheWarAgainstYou

(25:49)

 

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“USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied Because Hegseth Wanted To ‘Hide’ that Iran destroyed critical base: Rohde”

https://www.bitchute.com/video/I5ok7PkVz6wH

by MS NOW

(7:07)

President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Stephanie Ruhle with more details and analysis.

 

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“Larry Johnson: Trump in PANIC as USS Lincoln COVER UP Backfires, Iran DESTROYS US Navy”

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Rsj5GgeGpVU

with Danny Haiphong

(42:36)

Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson discusses a bombshell revelation of direct evidence that the US Navy hiding the truth about the crisis of the USS Lincoln and what it means for Trump’s war on Iran. https://sonar21.com/https://www.youtube.com/@UCewRbK22LRnNi6N3EcGjbow

 

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“STINKING SHIP | Day 170 | Abe Lincoln mutiny | Trump denies | Drone wars”

https://www.youtube.com/live/fa0rBjczhkE

with George Galloway

(2:11:44)

🇺 *TRUMP'S SINKING SHIP* — is the political tide turning against the US President?

🇮 *IRAN & AMERICA* — the fallout from confrontation and the danger of what comes next.

🚨 *WAR UPDATE* — Jackson Hinkle examines the latest developments and the risk of further escalation.

🛰 *THE FUTURE OF WAR* — Larry Johnson on drones and the technology changing warfare forever.

🗽 *AMERICA UNDER TRUMP* — Rachel Blevins brings the latest political picture from inside the United States.

📞 *YOUR CALLS* — George takes your views LIVE from Britain, America and around the world.

📱 *Gayatri Galloway* brings tonight's Social Media News Update.

📊 *TONIGHT'S MOATS POLL:* Is Trump guilty of killing the Minab schoolgirls? Have your say during the programme.

·         00:04:16 Menu

·         00:06:12 Monologue

·         00:28:59 Rachel Blevins

·         01:02:14 Clip of Larry C Johnson interview

·         01:10:07 Jackson Hinkle

·         02:03:12 Gayatri Galloway

 

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“US Military SOUNDS ALARM over TRUMP-KUSHNER!!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO1rKSrZPJQ

by MeidasTouch

(22:05)

 

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“Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson breaks down 'chaos' unfolding in US Navy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lswQM4K4F74

by Al Mayadeen English

(3:50)

He pointed to growing chaos within the #US Navy, citing increasingly frequent reports of food and personal hygiene shortages aboard multiple ships, poor living conditions, unsanitary conditions, and malfunctioning sewage systems. Johnson also pointed to serious morale problems, including reports of suicides among sailors. He said one news report claimed that as many as six sailors had attempted to jump overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln. However, Johnson said a recently retired US military officer told him that figure was inaccurate and that the actual number was “probably closer to 30.”

 

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“Trump 'has failed us': Air Force Major calls for President's impeachment”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7d5ImaqrOo&si=UqqcECoZdw1GrpxD

by CNN

(10:13)

President Vance's impeachment and removal from office over the war in Iran is speaking out in his first television interview. Air Force Major Jason Watson tells Erin Burnett President Trump is 'flagrantly violating the Constitution' and he hopes his actions 'inspire Americans to act.'

0:00 Airman arrested after protesting Trump in uniform speaks out

5:06 Erin Burnett asks why an active military member calls for impeachment

7:17 Legal analyst on active military speaking out against the President

Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr

#Trump #ErinBurnett #News

 

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“Ex-Soldier Exposes USS Abraham Lincoln Disaster: 260 Days At Sea Over ‘Stupid Iran War’”

https://www.bitchute.com/video/A6wBCvYF2Ctl

by The Katie Halper Show, with Greg Stoker

(12 :06)

 

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“What Life Is REALLY Like Inside a US Aircraft Carrier | Full Documentary”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zne--E6xGuk&t=25s

by Strike Theory

(1:00:06)

In this Video, we go inside daily life on the carrier: how the crew launches and recovers fighter jets in some of the most dangerous working conditions on earth, how thousands of people are fed and housed around the clock, and what it actually takes to keep a nuclear-powered vessel this size running twenty-four hours a day.

 

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b.

Fauci Prosecution! New Flu Vaxx Toxic? Cancer Dr. On Horrors Of Covid Vaxx!”

https://www.youtube.com/live/BnAnp5Ok5wE

by The Jimmy Dore Show

(1:39:32)

 

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“Fauci Hearings were a Coverup! Here’s Why.”

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/ive-changed-my-mind-the-fauci-hearings?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=257742&post_id=211173700&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber: The Jimmy Dore Show, with David Martin

(1:04:09)

 

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“This Video Explains a Lot About the Elites Who Want You Dead”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BzVBDgFo0&si=5lml2KS1d4RzjEx6

by The Tucker Carlson Network, with Catherine Austin Fitts

(9:19)

See, also, Online Books by Catherine Austin Fitts:

https://www.google.com/search?q=on+line+book+by+Catherine+Austin+fitts&oq=on+line+book+by+Catherine+Austin+fitts+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAtIBCTE3MzAyajBqN6gCD7ACAfEFEObpvVkEkuc&client=ms-android-wiko-rev2&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

and

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-wiko-rev2&sca_esv=05b5ab70096fef19&sxsrf=AppeQnvd3j49dfVrtSZm-Yq1UDKocS_qNw:1787034407826&q=Catherine+Austin+Fitts+books+PDF&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtr9H4xamWAxXpgf0HHQwKIJoQ1QJ6Bag8EAE

 

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“The Persistence of US Strategy, Anthony Fauci, and Limited Hangouts”

https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/16/the-persistence-of-us-strategy-anthony-fauci-and-limited-hangouts/

by Edward Curtin

Throughout all the news cycles over the years, you can count on a continuity in U.S. government/media propaganda and strategy. Make a time capsule, fill it with today’s news, hide it away, and pull it out in five, ten, or fifteen years, and while many details (tactics) will have changed, the underlying themes will remain. Or do it in reverse.

Assuming the world miraculously escapes a nuclear war of annihilation, when the criminal Donald Trump is long gone from office, replaced by a Democrat or Republican, the United States will still be waging war against Russia and China and any country that stands in its and Israel’s way in the Middle East. The people who own and run the U.S. will still be waging information war against the American people. Their tactics may have changed but not their long-term strategy. MKUltra, the CIA’s “former” mind-control and torture program, is now fully digitized and nearly co-terminus with the Internet.

The continuity of agenda from one American president to the next is striking. Because Trump says and does openly what has often been done insidiously by American presidents, he shocks by his audacity. He commits crimes at home and abroad as if he were smirkingly firing some contestant on his former Reality-TV show. Some people find this perversely honest to justify their support for an obvious madman versus the covert kind. Such is the double-binding trap, the fake binary, that Simon and Garfunkel once set to music with their song, “Mrs. Robinson”:

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates’ debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you’ve got to choose
Every way you look at it you lose

While Ronald Reagan could routinely call Nicaragua a “totalitarian dungeon,” and use the Contras to try to overthrow its legitimate government, Trump, while using similar language about Venezuela, simply bombed the country and kidnapped its President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

While Reagan, like Trump, was constantly saying that the Russians were always disseminating propaganda, disinformation, and managing the news, he always failed to mention that he and his staff, with the help of an obeisant media, regularly managed the news and lied to the world. In this they were typical presidents.

People may forget that Reagan, like Trump, was a master fabricator. Such examples are legendary. On two occasions he told Israeli prime Minister Yitzak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter, that he had personally assisted in the liberation of the Nazi death camps. The truth is that Reagan never left Hollywood where his war service consisted of work in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps at the Hal Roach Studios. Reagan’s, like Trump’s, false claims were so innumerable and outrageous that only a media and a populace inured to falsity would allow him to get away with them in the 1980s.

But that’s the way it was and is and will be in the U.S.A. Trump is a flipped version of Reagan, whose great admirer was Obama, under whose aegis the U.S. intelligence carried out the coup in Ukraine in 2014, setting the stage for the ongoing U.S./NATO war against Russia via Ukraine, blah blah blah.  It’s a small club, said George Carlin, of those who own and run the country, and you and I don’t belong to it. Yes, “Every way you look at it you lose.”

Now that the Chrisopher Nolan film, “The Odyssey,” has had it place in the sun dominating the news for weeks, a modern trickster named Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, a man of many Trojan Horses, pops up like a weasel from the music box to grab the headlines once again.

Or I should say someone turned the crank and he was popped up.

Since the diaries that he kept during the Covid-19 days were revealed (diaries very oddly put on government servers and not on his private laptop or in a paper diary), we know from the horse’s mouth how famous and celebrated he was and how giddy his celebrityhood made him feel as he was lying to the public about Covid-19. Since the recent congressional hearings in which he was called to testify and where he pleaded the Fifth Amendment more than a hundred times, we can feel good knowing that covid “probably” came from the Wuhan lab in China and not from some bat or monkey who was chasing a weasel. Maybe, or could be, or probably, as Republican Sen. Rand Paul and many commentators concluded, while Fauci was mum.

No one mentioned any other possibility, including that the 2019-nCoV “virus” (the original name in December 2019) was never isolated or that when they renamed it in Feb 2020 – SARS Covid 2 – it was to conceal that fact of a linguistic slight-of-hand used to declare a pandemic in March 2020 against a non-existent virus before coming out at the end of the year with the deadly vaccines that did the killing in 2021-2022 and thereafter. There were so many other non-mentionables since the parameters of the hearing had been set to exclude them.

Presumed to be so smart, why did Fauci put his diaries on government servers?

We know that Fauci was quite verbose back in the day when he trashed those – including the three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, respected doctors Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Sunetra Gupta – who dared to offer a different take on Covid-19. Whenever anyone questioned “the science,” as he termed the official narrative of covid, its statistics, the validity of the PCR tests, the effectiveness of masks, the six foot rule, the similarity between flu symptoms and covid and the near disappearance of flu in 2020, the experimental “vaccines” produced and approved at record speed, the horrible consequences of the shutdowns that were destroying economies, killing people, forcing people to despair and committing suicide, creating traumatized children and pushing along the new normal digital screen world, bankrupting small and medium-sized businesses for the sake of enriching the richest, etc.,

Fauci and his corporate media sycophants mocked such dissidents as conspiracy nuts aiding the invisible viral enemy. This was so even when the dissenters were highly respected doctors, scientists, and intellectuals who were expressing their First Amendment rights of free speech. Fauci ridiculed them all and many lost their jobs, their medical licenses, couldn’t travel, and were categorized as lunatics.

He didn’t advocate any First Amendment Bill of Rights for dissenters, as he does now for himself with the Fifth Amendment. No equal rights and no colloquy with others. And no shaking hands ever-ever-ever again as he told Time Magazine: “I don’t think we ever should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you.”

Isn’t it a shocking truth to finally know that Fauci didn’t tell the truth about the alleged origin of Covid-19? Can you believe it? That a top government official was lying to protect our “enemies” the Chinese when they really released the “virus” from their Wuhan lab?  We should say – by accident. But accidents happen as everyone understands, and enemies usually work together to develop biological weapons to use on each other. Ha! Ha!

The media are going wild about this revelation that Fauci revealed in his accidently discovered dear diaries that were accidently left on government servers that revealed Fauci’s opinion that the Chinese probably accidently released a covid virus from Wuhan. Catharsis feels great. Accidents happen. Like shit.

The only problem is that this revelation tells us nothing of importance, even if true. It is what is called “a limited hangout,” an old trick of the intelligence trade where you reveal a so-called truth to conceal deeper ones when they are threatened. This happens within a framework of “deep state” trickery where even the public faces of the exposures may not know that they are being played.

If we postulate that Fauci publicly lied about his funding for gain of function research at the University of North Carolina and Wuhan, so what? So “America’s Doctor,” the most famous man in the world, a man beloved by celebrities and CNN’s Jake Tapper, et al. Is a charlatan, an ego-maniac and a liar like Trump or the other presidents he served under. Is that a great surprise or important?

What the media are all agog about is a diversion. We learn nothing about Fauci’s connections to the CIA and gain-of-function research being conducted in the U.S. and all across the world with 40 or so labs in Ukraine alone. We learn nothing about why medicine has been weaponized, the use of biological weapons, the so-called vaccines, the false statistics, etc. Nothing useful. Only that Fauci lied.

How many people have contracted Lyme Disease and ever made a connection to U.S. biological and animal warfare research and its connection to a Nazi scientist ?

Covid-19 was a con-job from the start. The official operation was launched on March 11, 2020 with worldwide lockdowns that destroyed economies while enriching the super-rich and devastating regular people. It was a propaganda achievement carried out by intelligence and military apparatuses in conjunction with Big Pharma, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, etc. And promulgated by a vast around-the-clock corporate media disinformation campaign.

It was the third fundamental turning point – following the 1963 CIA assassination of President John Kennedy and the attacks of September 11, 2001 with their connected anthrax attacks originating  from a U.S. government bioweapons lab – in destabilizing the economic, social, and political life of all nations while undermining their sovereignty. It was based on false science in the interests of further developing a biosecurity state. The intelligence agency planners who had conducted many germ wargame simulations leading up to COVID-19 referred to a future arising out of such “attacks” as “The New Normal.” A close study of these precedents, game-planning, and players makes this evident.

The aim was to militarize medicine and concentrate power. Check the 2010 Rockefeller Report, the October 18, 2019 Event 201, and Agenda 21, among other places.

The use of the PCR test to detect the virus and create cases and death numbers was a lie from the start. The American Nobel Prize winning scientist who developed the test, Kary Mullis, made it clear before his sudden death in December 2019 that “the PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.” It is a process “to make a whole lot of something out of something,” but it cannot detect a specific virus..

The belief that it can so test began with the unscientific PCR Corona protocol created by Christian Drosten (Fauci’s colleague) in Germany in January 2020 that became the standard method for testing the soon-to-be-named SARS-CoV-2 worldwide. I am sure this was preplanned and part of a high-level conspiracy. This protocol set the cycle threshold (amplification) at 45 which could only result in false positive results. These were then called cases: An act of fraud on a massive scale. If one had been diagnosed as “a case” via the PCR test, and subsequently died of any cause – a heart attack, cancer, old age, etc. That person was recorded as having died from Covid. Fauci, Drosten, and others engaged in a game about the origin – animals, the wild, perhaps a lab, etc., all the while knowing how the biological disease weapons were being tested and funded.

And why? Which is of course the fundamental issue. . . . . (con’d)

 

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c.

“Norman Finkelstein & Jeremy Corbyn: THE INTERVIEW ISRAEL WANT TO BAN”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyS5Xp80LzA&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1HQtIHCQkTDAGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

by Double Down News

(43:01)

In a powerful and deeply personal conversation, political scientist Dr. Norman Finkelstein sits down with MP and former UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn to analyse the ongoing crisis in Gaza, Western diplomatic inaction, and the media's framing of the conflict. From evaluating ICJ proceedings to dismantling mainstream media "gatekeeper" tactics, Finkelstein and Corbyn provide an unsparing critique of current geopolitical realities and explain why Gaza has become a defining moral touchstone for a new generation. Beyond foreign policy, the pair explore the broader societal shifts shaping world politics today. Drawing on four decades of political activism, they compare today's student movement to historical anti-Apartheid and anti-Vietnam War struggles, while examining the decline of social mobility, the commercialisation of higher education, and the impact of digital media on critical thinking and long-term political engagement.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Highlights & Teaser

01:39 - The Destruction of Gaza & International Inaction

04:51 - Media Bias, Piers Morgan & "Gatekeeper" Questions

06:35 - The History of Gaza as an "Open-Air Prison"

08:18 - Comparing Modern Activism to Historical Anti-War Movements

12:30 - Why October 7th Changed Everything

15:18 - How Finkelstein & Corbyn First Got Involved in Palestine

22:42 - Economic Realities & Struggles of Today’s Youth

27:30 - The Loss of Social Mobility, Bernie Sanders & Student Debt

32:12 - Higher Education & The Decline of Deep Reading

37:47 - Smartphones, TV Culture & Shrinking Attention Spans

41:00 - SUV Culture, Pedestrian Life & cycling!

 

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“October 7th Examined in 3 Parts”

 https://corbettreport.com/october-7th-examined-on-the-jimmy-dore-show/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett and Jimmy Dore

James joins Jimmy Dore for a three-part conversation. In this conversation: James outlines the economic situation in Japan and how it relates to the wider economic and geopolitical situation in the world right now; James and Jimmy examine James’ recent analysis of the October 7th false flag attack; and they discuss how the world is being led to the brink of global warfare.

Conversation 1: Japan’s ZOMBIE Economy Is About To Crash! – James Corbett (15:30)

(*)Conversation 2: MOUNTAIN Of Evidence Prove Oct. 7th Attacks Were A FALSE FLAG! (32:15)

Conversation 3: U.S. Loss In Iran Will Spark WORLDWIDE CONFLICTS! (7:49)

Regarding:
10/7: A Conspiracy Theory
https://corbettreport.com/10-7-a-conspiracy-theory/

Monday July 20, 2026 – Corbett Report – KILLER SHOW NOTES SUPREME
Was 10/7 A False Flag? – Questions For Corbett
https://corbettreport.com/was-10-7-a-false-flag/

 

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“The Video Netanyahu DOESN’T WANT You To See!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O4Jr8W6GDI&si=jfrUPPg4xr5lBcaL

by The Jimmy Dore Show

(16:56)

 

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“You can kill whoever you like, but we're not afraid”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o50BscfoRoo?si=KyTDkm-DDnqe9ymm

with Mohammed Maranadi and Alan Dershowitz

(short video)

 

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“Blackmail, Bribes, and Fear: Netanyahu Claims He Controls Trump and America”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pDRbwI4R0I&t=19s&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

by The Tucker Carlson Show

(1:32:47)

A growing global bloc is uniting against America. Our future is in peril. Watch our live broadcast with Jeffrey Sachs.

#TuckerCarlson #JeffreySachs #USA #China #Russia #war #Ukraine #globalpolitics #Israel #Gaza #liveshow #breakingnews #world #news #politics

 

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“Israel-Turkey Conflict Could Explode Into War”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bhyaZXOUOY

with Glenn Diesen and Chas Freeman

(53:50)

Ambassador Chas Freeman was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centred post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defence and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Read Chas Freeman’s Substack: https://substack.com/@chasfreeman662157

Books by Prof. Glenn Diesen: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/...

 

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“How Intelligence Services Captured Academia and Journalism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKUBjOgIHAQ&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

with Glenn Diesen and David Gibbs

(54:12)

David N. Gibbs is a professor of history at the University of Arizona.

See debate on the CIA and academia:

David Gibbs and Robert Jervis https://www.democracynow.org/2002/11/...

Article in the Los Angeles Times on the CIA-academic nexus: https://irp.fas.org/news/2001/01/lat0...

 

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“Documenting the U.S. Media’s Complicity in the Genocide of Gaza”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrIhjl6_Js

by The Chris Hedges Report, with Robin Andersen

(45:06)

In Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza.

 

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“'NO REASON TO MEET': CIA Boss Shut Out As Putin Readies Russia For Major Military Move Now?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjpYWKG0Xo4&si=7-k-uNPLa1W59z2x

by Times Of India

(8:02)

 

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“Russia REFUSES to Abandon Iran as CIA Chief Makes MYSTERY Visit to Moscow”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qz3cwKVJTk&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

by Rachel Blevins, with Laith Marouf

(33:14)

The U.S. is sending the message that it wants to shift to an economic war and avoid another military escalation with Iran… for now. But Tehran is making it clear that it will launch a major retaliation to these economic attacks, and it comes just as the U.S. is gearing up for midterm elections. This, as CIA Director John Ratcliffe became the first CIA chief to visit Russia in person since William Burns in 2021. What did he talk with representatives for Russian intelligence services about? That still remains to be seen… Laith Marouf, a Beirut-based journalist and executive director of Free Palestine TV, noted that whether Ratcliffe came with threats of bribes, he didn’t appear to leave with what he wanted, as Moscow made a statement affirming that it will NOT abandon Iran amid increased U.S. pressure.

 

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“Scott Ritter: Russia UNMASKS Desperate CIA Plot as Iran HAMMERS US Navy”

https://www.youtube.com/live/qw8yFkJonJw

with Danny Haiphong

(58:41)

Former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter discusses the mysterious fall out from the CIA's rushed visit to Moscow as Iran lands a major blow on the US Navy no one is talking about.

 

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“Scott Ritter: CIA on Russian Soil, Hungary Flips the Script, and Iran's Clock Ticks”

https://www.youtube.com/live/0tjV_CNWchk

by Dialogue Works

(59:54)

 

 

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“US C-17 in MOSCOW? Russia & Iran EXPOSE Secret EMERGENCY CIA Op!”

https://www.youtube.com/live/Aa3PIbNunwI

with Danny Haiphong and Larry Johnson

(58:03)

 

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“The REAL Reason Why C.I.A. Chief Visited Moscow”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjbG8EvQQy4&si=4WB7YO5e0w0N2VdI

by The Young Turks

(21:50)

CIA chief John Ratcliffe visited Moscow for reasons that are unclear. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Do you agree with TYT's take? Tell us what you think in the comments below. Get paid to use your phone less! Switch to Noble Mobile today: https://go.tyt.com/mobile

"The surprise visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Moscow this week was to deliver a warning to Russia not to attack NATO countries, according to people briefed on the visit. The trip was spy-agency chief John Ratcliffe’s first publicly known visit to the Russian capital. It followed new U.S. intelligence assessments, reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal, that Russian President Vladimir Putin could try to test the resolve of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with a limited assault on an allied country in the next few years."

 

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“Iran's Retaliation BEGINS, Trump's 'D-Day' Attack Sparks WW3”

https://www.youtube.com/live/qz_RKgRwPrA?si=0v9SdTGzbKVisC-s

with Danny Haiphong and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

(58:18)

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discusses Iran's stunning response to Trump's 'D-Day' attack as the march to World War 3 accelerates. Trump's economic and military operation is backfiring badly already, and China & Russia are giving Iran a boost to its devastating retaliation underway. Join us as we analyze all of this and more in geopolitics!

 

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“Nuclear War: The Catastrophic Consequences of Using Nukes”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pnKHq7RuTpU

with Scott Ritter

(short video)

 

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“Peter Kuznick: Entering the Age of Nuclear Wars”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3CprBPNPM&si=pyLu1z-KawzFHVhw

with Glenn Diesen

(49:03)

 

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“Pepe Escobar: U.S. Desperation in Iran: Bribing the IRGC—and Preparing for a Nuclear Strike?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACDwXDICn4s&t=28s&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

with Glenn Diesen

(52:25)

 

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“Iran’s $30,000 Troop Bounty STUNS Trump, US Navy DONE”

https://www.youtube.com/live/iWatSwIvcVI

with Larry Johnson

(58:25)

Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuss Iran’s announcement of a shocking offensive now that the MoU is officially dead. Trump is lashing out as the news about the state of the US Navy gets worse and worse.

 

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“INTERVIEW: How long can America survive?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5NA9-KH8T0

with George Galloway and Jackson Hinkle

(21:02)

For the first time in 41 years America has no imports of Saudi oil, says Jackson Hinkle. We’re heading to societal breakdown and civil war. Trump can always hide out in a food cart Follow @moatstv 578 X: @jacksonhinkle

#America #civilwar #Trump

 

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“Iran’s Covert Offensive Averts The Collapse Of Lebanon – US Aircraft Carriers Inbound”

https://www.youtube.com/live/aV3-Pp7h62U

by Mint Press

(1:28:13)

LIVE ANALYSIS: Iran’s shadow operations saved Lebanon. U.S. aircraft carriers are inbound, marketed as punishment, or preparation, yet truly expose an American weakness. Robert Inlakesh dissects the covert offensive and how events from across the region add up to a pending checkmate against the US-Israeli alliance. Yemen’s Ansarallah have imposed an unprecedented scenario on Saudi Arabia, striking oil interests in retaliation for Riyadh simply violating Yemen’s airspace. Stand with independent watchdog journalism.

 

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“Why Europe’s Leaders Provoke War With Russia”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxxaq6Hbxs4&t=21s&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

with Glenn Diesen and Richard Wolff

(52:52)

 

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“We are at war with Russia”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IafZN1zjLAE

with George Galloway and Andy Burnham

(20:11)

Says Britain’s unelected leader (hey, that’s democracy!) Andy Burnham. The Mother Of All Energy Crises is coming down the (dry) pipe. And on this day, recalling the bloody British coup against the democratically elected Iran government

Watch #MOATS Live every Sunday & Wednesday 7PM London Time

Follow @moatstv 579 #Burnham #Russia #war #Iran #Mosaddegh

 

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“LAVROV BRIEFING LIVE | Sergey Lavrov’s Explosive Warning To NATO Sends Shockwaves Worldwide”

https://www.youtube.com/live/BKh5RcU2GlU?pp=iggCQAE%3D

by Times Now World

(9:07:10)

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that World War Three has already begun in a new form, accusing the West of provoking global conflicts to maintain its dominance and weaken Russia. Speaking at the “Territory of Meanings” forum, Lavrov alleged that NATO’s actions in Ukraine, along with previous Western interventions in the Middle East, marked the start of a broader confrontation aimed at Russia’s strategic defeat. He claimed that Moscow is now fighting alone against the collective West and warned that Germany and other NATO members are preparing for direct military engagement with Russian forces. Lavrov also said the United States and European Union are … #live #lavrovlive #ww3news #russiawestconflict #russianewsupdate #worldwarnow #geopoliticslive #lavrovstatement #breakingrussianews #globalcrisislive

 

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“US Troops Preparing For WW3? Hegseth Orders Urgent Meeting Of Generals, Admirals | Trump”

https://www.youtube.com/live/fUuwbG_yzsg

by ET Now

(6:39:15)

Tensions are rising as reports surface about urgent meetings called by Pete Hegseth involving top US generals and admirals, sparking speculation about whether the US military is preparing for a potential World War III scenario. With geopolitical conflicts intensifying globally, the question on everyone’s mind is: Is the United States gearing up for a large-scale military confrontation? #live #USMilitary #WW3Preparation #PeteHegseth #UrgentMeeting #USGenerals #USAdmirals #TrumpNews #GlobalTensions #MilitaryUpdate #WorldWar3 #USDefense #BreakingNews #LiveNews #Geopolitics #MilitaryStrategy

 

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“Something Just Went Very Wrong for Israel — And Things Are Getting Worse”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-AgKz9yRGs

by Breaking News, with Scott Ritter

(27:20)

 

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“Is Yemen’s Endless War Serving a US-Israeli agenda?”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/yemens-endless-war-serving-us-israeli-agenda

by Shady Ibrahim

Washington and Tel Aviv appear comfortable in the back seat, shaping the conflict’s boundaries while others bear its costs.

For years, the war in Yemen has not been a conflict in search of a victor. It has become a struggle in which every side seeks to degrade their opponents, without achieving a victory the wider region cannot absorb.

This makes Yemen an ideal test of an idea advanced by US strategist Edward Luttwak in his 1999 essay “Give War a Chance”, later applied to Syria in 2013: not every cessation of war constitutes peace, and not every victory produces a desirable outcome. 

Sometimes the strategic interest lies in ensuring no side prevails, preserving a balance that prevents any party from defeating the others. In Syria, Luttwak argued that a government victory would strengthen Iran, while its collapse would open the way for “uncontrollable jihadists”, as perceived by Israel and the US, making an “indefinite draw” the optimal US outcome.

More than a decade later, Yemen appears to test this logic without ever formally adopting it. The war has theoretically ended as a conventional confrontation, yet it remains unresolved on the ground.

In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition intervened after the Houthis seized Sanaa, aiming to restore the internationally recognised government. Yet the war neither returned Yemen to its starting point nor reached a conclusive end. 

 

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“‘Your Bombs Kill Children’: Protesters Surround NATO Drone Factory, Demand Israel Arms Supplies End”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxL2o4WovkA

by Times Of India

(11:18)

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Elbit Systems’ UAV Engines facility in Shenstone, Staffordshire, demanding an end to arms supplies to Israel. The demonstration, supported by Campaign Against Arms Trade, saw protesters carry placards accusing the Israeli military of killing children and use blood-stained shroud props to highlight civilian deaths in Gaza. Demonstrator Lotika said campaigners were not outsiders but members of the local community who wanted the factory’s military production to end. The protest puts fresh pressure on the UK-based facility and raises questions over Britain’s role in supplying defence equipment linked to Israel. Protesters are demanding action, while the controversy continues to intensify.

#Israel #Gaza #ElbitSystems #UK #Protest #IDF #ArmsTrade #Staffordshire

 

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“Netanyahu May Have Just Made A Deadly Mistake”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-IDDHq2X0

with Jeffrey Sachs

(27:18)

 

+

“Mossad Runs US President? Shocking Intel Exposed!”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KquQDrJ59ew?si=xV3bZnQpHuto8oVC

with Judge Andrew Napolitano and Pepe Escobar

(short video)

 

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“URGENCE À GAZA, FAITES UN DON MAINTENANT”

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb1zIMboDfA

by Save The Children International

(1:01)

 

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h.

“The Video Trump Wants To Ban: Lowkey Exposes Trump’s Criminal Family”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlYfOdFzFKg&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1HQg%3D%3D

by Double Down News

(1127)

 

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“Richard Wolff: The Decline of the U.S. Empire is Accelerating Fast”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRmaq6ijOy8&t=10s

with Glenn Diesen

(58:42)

Prof. Richard Wolff discusses why the symptoms of imperial decline are accelerating rapidly in the U.S.

 

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“Jeffery Sachs: America’s Economic Crisis”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-kGWehVl4

by Gnan Review

(21:06)

Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins Judge Andrew Napolitano to discuss the growing challenges facing the U.S. economy, including rising interest rates, falling bond prices, massive federal deficits, and America’s $40 trillion national debt. Sachs argues that declining demand for U.S. Treasury securities reflects growing concerns about American economic policy and credibility. The conversation also examines the unpredictability of U.S. foreign policy, changing relationships with countries such as South Korea and Iran, and the broader reassessment of America’s global role. Sachs also discusses AIPAC, U.S. political races, and changing American attitudes toward Israel. Watch the full discussion for Jeffrey Sachs’ analysis of America’s economic and geopolitical challenges. Disclaimer: This video is presented for commentary, discussion, and informational purposes. The views expressed are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of this channel.

#JeffreySachs #America #USEconomy #EconomicCrisis #USDebt #Economy #FederalDebt #InterestRates #TreasuryBonds #DonaldTrump #USPolitics #ForeignPolicy #Geopolitics #GlobalEconomy #EconomicNews #PoliticalNews #JudgeNapolitano #JudgingFreedom #Iran #SouthKorea #AIPAC #Israel #USForeignPolicy #FinancialCrisis

 

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“Michael Hudson: The West's Debt System Is Breaking”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IDK17evxeQ&si=8KG_n0kUm0bmTaG8

with Glenn Diesen

(26:21)

Watch the full video:   https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png • Michael Hudson: The West's Financial Syste...  

Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses the history of finance and why the West's financial system is on the brink of collapse.

Follow the work of Michael Hudson: https://michael-hudson.com/

 

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“Jeffrey Sachs: The War on Russia & Iran Is Breaking the West”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLhkKjo544U&t=4s&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

with Glenn Diesen

(41:34)

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses how the economy and mentality of the West are impacted by the wars against Russia and Iran.

 

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“Michael Parenti, The Darker Myths of Empire: Heart of Darkness Series”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOF56wYTl1w&t=126s&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

by College of DuPage

(1:23:00)

College of DuPage, Writers Read, Heart of Darkness Series - "The Darker Myths of Empire" Michael Parenti Jason Snart, SRC 2800, November 16, 2005

 

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“It’s Getting Worse and Worse”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M37K8YEFJcY

by SAVVY, with Alex Krainer

(8:17)

Alex Krainer breaks down the shifting balance of global power, examining Israel’s dependence on Western support, Russia’s growing influence, and the long-term consequences of geopolitical conflict. In this video, Krainer discusses Israel, the U.S., the U.K., Russia, and the changing dynamics shaping the global order. Watch the full discussion and share your thoughts below. #AlexKrainer #Geopolitics #Russia #Israel #GlobalPower #WorldOrder

 

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j.

“Candace Owens: TPUSA Worker Caught ALTERING SD Card Video!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXxz9r9i_7Q

by The Jimmy Dore Show

(16:24)

The segment focuses on new video footage showing TPUSA video producer Terryl Farnsworth improperly removing SD cards from cameras at the scene of Charlie Kirk’s shooting and subsequently accessing the footage on a computer. Jimmy questions why Farnsworth took the cards from one particular camera, moved the chair Charlie had been sitting in when he was shot, and began texting someone shortly afterward, while criticizing the explanation from TPUSA that he was merely protecting the footage from theft. The discussion presents these actions as evidence of a crime-scene cover-up, while also raising questions about what the removed footage, a road microphone, and other evidence might reveal. Jimmy praises Candace Owens for investigating the incident and argues that the circumstances surrounding the handling of evidence merit further scrutiny.

 

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“Exclusive: Candice Owens Discuses the Charlie Kirk Investigation On TYT”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHCr0lkT120&pp=0gcJCRMMAYcqIYzv

by The Young Turks

(54:26)

Candace Owens walks through the inconsistencies in the Charlie Kirk assassination investigation with Ana Kasparian on The Young Turks. Do you agree with TYT's take? Tell us what you think in the comments below.

 

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“Candice Owens Reveals SCOCKING Evidence In The Charlie Kirk Investigation”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26-1b_0xBiA

by The Young Turks

(13:05)

 

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“The REAL Agenda Behind the Data Center Drive”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB6aIqDyLms

by The Chris Hedges Report, with Whitney Webb

(14:27)

Full episode:   https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png • How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Gov...  

Read Whitney's article here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/03/...

Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/

Follow The Chris Hedges Report on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges

 

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“‘The Totalitarian Capitalism’ That Big Tech Is Building”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzaDL59wjMc&t=130s&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

by The Chris Hedges Report, with Whitney Webb

(9:22)

Full episode:   https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png • How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Gov...  

Read Whitney's article here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/03/...

Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/

Follow The Chris Hedges Report on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges

 

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“WHAT I KNOW ABOUT JEFFREY EPSTEIN”

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/what-i-know-about-jeffrey-epstein?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1377040&post_id=212830962&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by Seymour Hersh

An account from decades ago raises questions about his connections to Mossad and the FBI—but not the CIA.

Let me begin this messy story by telling you that I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, in a lower middle class, racially mixed ward that also included the University of Chicago and a few upper middle class neighborhoods. It was controlled by an elected Democratic party leader named Marshall Korshak, an attorney whose brother was Sidney Korshak. As I would learn in high school, Sidney was the most powerful mob boss in Chicago. He oversaw drugs, prostitution, police payoffs and had ties to the corrupt International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Decades later, when I was at the New York Times, Jeff Gerth, an expert on the financing of organized crime, and I published, after months of interviews, a four-part series on the newspaper’s front pages focused on Sidney and his control of racketeering, prostitution, and vice in Chicago.

The date the first installment of our series was to appear was delayed at the last minute because of a sudden Teamsters strike that kept the Sunday New York Times and its Korshak revelations from being distributed around the country for days. The senior editors at The Times understood why the strike had taken place, but that fact was never published.

Our reporting involved two long background interviews with Roy Cohn, the prominent New York mob lawyer and fixer who had famously served as counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy when he was on the House Un-American Activities Committee during the postwar Red Scare and later as a mentor to New York businessman Donald Trump. Once assured we were speaking privately, Cohn provided a firsthand view of the link between politics and crime as well as the way certain prominent senators were kept supplied with pretty women.

So I knew the sort of man Jeffrey Epstein was when he first became known for providing airplanes for various politicians, including a former president, and later for running what seemed to me to be a series of a high-end whorehouses at no charge for prominent men, many high up in the world of American business and New York finance.

And so when I learned the story I’m about to tell, I wanted nothing to do with it.

 

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“I Watched 14 Hours of Epstein Videos. Here’s What I Saw.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChzPbfykcY

by The Free Press

(8:34)

On January 30, 2026, the Department of Justice released more than three million files related to Jeffrey Epstein. And buried within that are roughly 2,000 previously unpublished videos. But while they’re technically public, they are stored in a way that makes them very hard to find or browse. To watch these videos, the public has two choices: download hundreds of gigabytes of data— or click through hundreds of web pages, one by one. The Free Press's Tanya Lukyanova did both. The vast majority of videos—and by far the most revealing ones—are in Data Set 10. These are videos seized from Epstein’s devices: footage he recorded himself, received from others, or downloaded from the internet. All redactions were done by the DOJ. Viewer discretion is advised.

The DOJ dumped 14 hours of video into the Epstein files. For the first time, The Free Press put them all in one place.

Watch Part 1: https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-the-jef...

Watch Part 2: https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-the-eps...

 

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“Inside Epstein's Zorro Ranch: the FBI cover-up exposed”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPy40PK_ztY

by 60 Minutes Australia

(21:37)

In the wake of the newly unsealed Epstein files, a special Truth Commission in New Mexico is finally investigating the horrific crimes and alleged cover-ups centered around the disgraced predator's remote Zorro Ranch. Survivors and local officials demanded answers as to why federal authorities seemingly ignored terrifying tips of deaths, human trafficking, and a twisted designer baby project at the forgotten desert compound. Epstein survivor Chauntae Davies is deeply haunted by Zorro, and tells 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown it was the "most eerie" of all the places she was trafficked to. Davies is now working to rebuild her life, dedicating her time to animal rescue charities in Texas, like Jack Jacks Pack Street Dog Rescue.

 

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“California 1991 Cold Case SOLVED — Officers Checked on Him 60 Times and had No Clue”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChzPbfykcY&si=pEJK3748I6k9y5bK

by Cold Case Uncovered

(26:05)

In 1991, an 11-year-old girl was taken from a school bus stop in broad daylight while her stepfather watched from the yard. He chased the car on his bike. He couldn't catch it. She vanished. For the next 18 years, she was held in a backyard compound behind the home of a man the state of California was actively monitoring. Parole officers visited his house 60 times. A neighbor reported children living in tents behind the property. A GPS ankle bracelet tracked his movements daily. Nobody checked the backyard. Nobody found her. In 2009, two university employees in Berkeley met the man when he walked onto campus with two teenage girls. Within 48 hours, their decision to act led to his confession and the rescue of a woman the world had stopped looking for.

 

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“This is Why Ghislaine Maxwell Refuses to Testify”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsw8ZoWPUCY

by Deep Dive News, with Lowkey

(13:30)

 

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“INTERVIEW: Trump is flailing about like a wounded animal”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVrUWWXTGA

with George Galloway and Chris Hedges

(22:39)

Trump has promised apocalyptic violence, bombing Iran back to the Stone Age, says Chris Hedges, his new economic 'D-Day' will cause pain but Iran will cope. It knows it's in an existential fight for its own survival

 

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“‘Get Him Out of There Before He Kills Us All’ Sachs Trump Warning”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lHoLAwy-Eo&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

by The Financial Express

(12:13)

Jeffrey Sachs delivers a blistering assessment of Donald Trump, arguing that the president’s leadership and use of power raise serious concerns about the state of American politics. Sachs describes Trump in deeply critical terms and argues that the larger problem goes beyond one individual. He says Trump is also a symptom of what he calls a deeply corrupted political system, pointing to presidential war powers, Congress, checks and balances, and America’s long-running foreign policy. Sachs also sharply criticizes media coverage of Trump, questioning what he sees as the normalization of increasingly extreme rhetoric and decisions. He challenges journalists and political leaders to ask harder questions about presidential power, accountability and the consequences of America’s foreign policy. The wide-ranging discussion touches on Trump’s rhetoric, Iran, presidential authority, Congress, the security state, media coverage and the broader political system in Washington. Watch the full remarks and hear Jeffrey Sachs’ forceful assessment of Donald Trump and the state of American democracy.

#jeffreysachs #donaldtrump #trump #trumpnews #uspolitics #americanpolitics #trumpadministration #iran #uspolitics #worldnews #globalnews

 

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“‘Trump R*P*D 13-Year-Old Minors’: Ted Lieu And Victims CONFRONT Trump, Reveal Horrifying Details”

https://www.oneindia.com/videos/trump-raped-13yearold-minors-ted-lieu-and-victims-confront-trump-reveal-horrifying-details-4321336.html

by Oneindia News, C-SPAN

(6:06)

Ted Lieu says newly released Epstein files contain “disturbing allegations” involving Donald Trump. Lieu urged the media and federal authorities to closely investigate claims mentioned in the documents, including allegations of sexual and violent conduct. The explosive remarks have reignited debate over transparency, accountability, and what may still be hidden inside the Epstein records. As political pressure mounts, questions are growing over whether further investigations could follow.

Video Published On: Saturday, Aug 22, 2026, 02:48 [IST]

 

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“‘DERANGED, CRAZY, PATHETIC!’: Jeffrey Sachs UNLOADS On ‘Out Of Control’ Trump In Biggist Warning Yet”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-BtVBhju5k

by Times Of India

(16:34)

American economist Jeffrey Sachs has launched a fierce attack on Donald Trump, questioning the president’s foreign policy and warning about what he describes as unchecked presidential power. Sachs says Trump has “no self-control” and asks when someone will intervene “before he does more harm.” He also criticizes what he sees as the normalization of war and argues that Congress has failed to exercise meaningful checks on presidential military power. Sachs points to decades of U.S. military interventions, from the Balkans and Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. His explosive remarks raise questions about presidential authority, U.S. foreign policy and the risks of endless war.

#JeffreySachs #JeffSachs #DonaldTrump #Trump #USPolitics #ForeignPolicy #War #TrumpNews #USMilitary #BreakingNews

 

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“Trump’s Desperate Gas Move Just Made Everything WAY WORSE”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFQTkb4JyW8&si=azADagR7YEYluk8u

by The Jimmy Dore Show, with Larry Johnson

(6:38)

 

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“The True Origins of WW II: History Class Lied About How WWII Started”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzNaacrQdBo

by Uncover Dossier and 3 more

(29:05)

The story of World War II you were taught in school is incomplete. The real origins of the deadliest conflict in human history go far beyond one man's rise to power in Germany. They trace back to a punitive peace treaty designed to humiliate rather than heal, a circular debt system that made Wall Street banks the architects of German industrial recovery, and corporate boardrooms where American executives knowingly funded the very cartels that brought the Nazis to power. In this video, we uncover the financial machinery behind the war: how the Dawes Plan and Young Plan funneled billions in American loans into the German military-industrial complex. How corporations like Standard Oil, General Motors, Ford, IBM, and I.G. Farben were intertwined in ways that made the Third Reich's war machine possible. How the Bank for International Settlements laundered looted Nazi gold while claiming neutrality. How British appeasement was driven not just by fear, but by trade interests. How the exclusion of the Soviet Union from the Munich Conference pushed Stalin into his pact with Hitler. And how the economic strangulation of Japan created the conditions for Pearl Harbor and war in the Pacific. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is documented history, drawn from Senate committee records, declassified diplomatic cables, Nuremberg trial evidence, and the archives of the institutions involved. The question is not just how the war happened, but who profited, and whether those same patterns are still at work today.

#WorldWar2 #WW2History #TrueHistory #WhatHistoryBooksGetWrong #WW2Origins #TreatyOfVersailles #WallStreet #NaziGermany #GreatDepression #Appeasement #MunichAgreement #MolotovRibbentropPact #PearlHarbor #IGFarben #StandardOil #BankForInternationalSettlements #FinancialHistory #HiddenHistory #MacroFinance #GeopoliticalHistory #PowerAndMoney #HistoryDocumentary #DarkHistory #EconomicWarfare #WeimarRepublic

 

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“Right after Britain licensed its Missile Technology to KIEV, Russia blew up U.K. Underground Bunkers”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21iPVcxxETg&si=NeWwwPtRDw36oaVW

by Borzzikman

(8:34)

Right after Britain licensed its Missile Technology to KIEV, Russia blew up U.K. underground BUNKERS. Moreover, immediately after that, Russia launched another devastating missile strike on the Odessa region. According to the available information, the main targets of Russian missiles and drones were not only Ukraine’s port infrastructure but also facilities directly linked to the British Defence Ministry. So, a few hours ago, the Russian military confirmed the destruction of an oil tanker in the 'Yuzhny' port. The official statement says that this ship was attempting to deliver fuel and lubricants to the Ukrainian army. Furthermore….

 

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“JUST NOW: Poland HUMILIATES Belgium Over Frozen Russian Assets”

https://www.youtube.com/live/RJzSoCfQikI

by Defense Brief Daily

(23:03)

 

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“Start Preparing Yourselves”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWXSPOJCaic&si=RVbLT7iG4Xh3omhB

by LifeWorthLiving, with Jeffrrey Sachs

(12:40)

Share this video with a friend if you find it useful! Consider subscribing to the channel for videos about investing, business, stock market, managing money, building wealth, passive income, and other finance-related content!

CREDIT: Website of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: https://www.jeffsachs.org/

👉 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL : If you’re new to this channel then I want to welcome you to “LifeWorthLiving”. This channel is all about Economy, Finance, News, business and money. We try our best to create and deliver the best financial educational videos to help many people better understand the current economy and the financial system through many experts in this area

 

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“The REAL Agenda Behind the Data Center Drive”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB6aIqDyLms

by The Chris Hedges Report, with Whitney Webb

(14:27)

Full episode:   https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png • How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Gov...  

Read Whitney's article here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/03/...

Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/

Follow The Chris Hedges Report on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges

 

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“The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA&si=HpRyxfOYnIYhv5jC

by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

(36:59)

Tech fascism didn’t rise in secret — it grew in plain sight. Why didn't most journalists or politicians notice? In this episode of The Nerd Reich Podcast, host Gil Duran speaks with legendary tech critic Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish, the prophetic book that warned about the rise of Silicon Valley authoritarianism and technofascism decades before Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the far-right tech elite took power. We dive deep into how Silicon Valley’s toxic libertarianism evolved into a global far-right propaganda machine, why tech journalists failed to sound the alarm, and what happens next as AI, surveillance, and billionaire power reshape democracy.

🔥 Chapters & Highlights:

– Tech Fascism 101: How Silicon Valley Went Authoritarian

– The Forgotten Critic: Paulina Borsook and Cyberselfish

– Why Journalists Worshipped Tech Billionaires

– Elon Musk’s X and the Global Far-Right Network

– The Toxic Masculinity Problem in Tech

– Can Democracy Survive Tech Fascism?

#tech #TechFascism #ElonMusk #PaulinaBorsook #SiliconValley #PeterThiel #AI #Politics #podcast #technology #technews #technologynews #future #journalism #technofascism

 

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“‘The Nerd Reich’: Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg7YNUbaV-8

by Democracy Now! with Gil Duran

(34:04)

A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows the rise of Vice President JD Vance, the former venture capitalist whose “outsider” campaign for Senate was bankrolled by the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Peter Thiel. Durán traces the ideological lineage of the current Trump administration back from Vance to Thiel and the far-right-wing monarchist Curtis Yarvin, whose “right-libertarian” political theory has long made the rounds among Silicon Valley elite. “These guys were never libertarians,” says Durán. “Now that they are the government, we see their true face: They’re fascists, and they’re authoritarians.”

 

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“Michael Barenboim: In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmSZ4xDms0

by Nullpunkt – mit Hanno Hauenstein

(51:12)

This episode's Editorial Partner: @972mag

Video & Audio: Ben Schuman-Stoler of Kollo Media, with assistance from Karl Krautzberger. Special thanks to the Chapters Bookstore in Berlin for letting us film in their space. In this episode, I speak with musician, organiser and political commentator Michael Barenboim about Germany’s increasingly restrictive debate around Israel and Palestine.

We discuss the policing and silencing of voices critical of Israel; what it means to be Jewish in Germany while rejecting Zionism; and the political climate surrounding Palestine solidarity in Germany.

00:00 Intro

02:30 Being in Germany since October 7, 2023?

06:25 The cancellation of academic / cultural events

08:40 How Germany tried to silence Michael Barenboim

11:50 On Israel’s 'right to exist'

16:30 Where is repression in Germany coming from?

22:00 Germany’s perception of Jews

25:00 Make Freedom Ring and the classical music scene

33:30 What made Michael aware of Palestine?

39:10 Why Michael doesn’t want to leave Germany

41:00 How do younger musicians view Israel-Palestine?

44:00 Is German memory culture redeemable?

49:00 Is there hope left?

 

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“Patrick Henningsen: Israel's Losses Mount As New Middle East Reality Sets In”

https://www.youtube.com/live/x7sIy2JCj64

by Dialogue Works

(1:02:22)

 

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“The Ecocidal History of the U.S. Military – EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY Deleted Scene”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqLuUOzYAU

by Abby Martin

(13:25)

Abby Martin explains the ecocidal history of the U.S. military and how the U.S. fused itself into a permanent war economy in this deleted history scene from our feature film Earth’s Greatest Enemy.

WATCH FULL FILM AT http://EARTHSGREATESTENEMY.com

VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/earthsgrea...

APPLE TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/earths-...

PRIME VIDEO: https://amazon.com/placeholder_title-...

YOUTUBE: Becoming a Empire Files member!

 

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“Why Rothschild Daughters  Never Inherited a Penny”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Pw6EbFEI0&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D

by History Meets Finance

(28:50)

At their peak, the Rothschilds controlled 40% of all the wealth in Europe. No king could start a war without their approval. No government could raise debt without their backing. They were not just the biggest bank in the world... they were the financial system itself. But in 1810, their founder wrote one rule into the family contract that would quietly destroy everything he built.

 

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“Trump Becomes the Very Thing He Swore to Destroy. And It Might Cost Us Our Country”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf_tbI1brbg&si=UgsKRA55RbNFyoP9

with Tucker Carlson

(1:39:25)

There are more than 100 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Donald Trump has no intention of deporting them. Greg Bovino ran the Border Patrol until earlier this year, and saw the betrayal firsthand. Now he says the administration is threatening his life. Gregory K. Bovino is a retired U.S. Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent and former Commander at Large, where he led major immigration enforcement operations across the country. A nearly 30-year Border Patrol veteran, he previously commanded the El Centro Sector in California and held senior leadership posts in Washington, D.C., San Diego, and New Orleans. He holds master’s degrees in National Security Strategy and Public Administration.

#TuckerCarlson #immigration #DonaldTrump #ICE #BorderPatrol #Mexico #Iran #donors #TomHoman #BuildTheWall #aliens #economy #news #politics #podcast

 

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“Deep State Maximum Pressure on Russia as Ukraine Crumbles”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH6ClwI3jVE&si=Lq5kePGwhRTBpwta

by The Duran

(25:46)

Episode 2609:

·         00:00:00 Introduction Why Was CIA Director Ratcliffe in Moscow

·         00:00:54 The Official Cover Story Everyone Is Selling

·         00:01:46 Why This Was Not a Routine Diplomatic Visit

·         00:04:59 The Two Real Reasons Behind the Moscow Trip

·         00:07:24 The Donbass Buffer Zone Offer Revealed

·         00:08:19 Putin and Lavrov Refuse to Meet Ratcliffe

·         00:10:56 The Hidden Threats Behind the Diplomacy

·         00:13:05 Vatican Kellogg and Pence All Sent In

·         00:18:14 The Most Dangerous Moment of the War

·         00:21:05 Breaking Car Bomb Targets Official in St Petersburg

 

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“Lavrov LIVE: ‘Those Placing Hurdles Will Face…’: Russia's BIG Announcement Amid Fresh Ukraine Mess”

https://www.youtube.com/live/7jzrGrE0DMU

by Times Now World

(live)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have discussed the results of the Istanbul talks ahead of the proposed call between Putin and Trump to end the Ukraine War. Rubio welcomed agreements to swap the prisoners of war and to prepare each side’s conditions leading to a ceasefire. He also emphasized Washington’s readiness to continue assistance in seeking ways to settle the situation. Watch.

#live #Lavrov #Trump #Zelensky #IstanbulTalks #Putin #donaldtrump #russiaukrainewar #ukraineconflict #russia #putin #kremlin

 

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“What They Don’t Tell You About Venezuela”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI0JYw0DcKQ

by Bianca Graulau

(25:16)

Go to https://groundnews.com/bianca to stay fully informed on what’s happening in the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off unlimited access on the Vantage Plan, the same one that I use, and take control of the news you consume. Some blame socialism, others blame the United States.

In this video we explore what actually happened in Venezuela.

Watch my conversation with Venezuelan journalist Simón Rodríguez Porras here:   https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png • Lo Que Pasó en Venezuela: Entrevista con u...  

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10...

 

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“'MAGA's man in Latin America' arrested for murder-for-hire plot”

https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/magas-man-in-latin-america-arrested?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=474765&post_id=212638886&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y5fd4&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by The Grayzone

(8:10)

Lurking behind Trump aligned leaders such as Javier Milei, Daniel Noboa, Jair Bolsonaro, and Nayib Bukele are lesser known but highly influential operatives who dictate the course of events in their countries.
Perhaps the most consequential of these figures is Fernando Cerimedo, a top advisor to the right-wing Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, who’s known as MAGA’s man in Latin America.
On August 18, Cerimedo was arrested and accused of masterminding an attack that would have killed his ex-girlfriend, the Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, who is pregnant.
Beller miraculously survived four shots at point-blank range, and from her hospital bed, in a desperate bid to avoid being murdered, she denounced Cerimedo.
The Grayzone reports on how Cerimedo's testimony exposes much more than her ex's lethal intentions. Beller reveals an entire network of CIA assets manipulating Latin American politics on behalf of Trump's Washington, and explains how a deluge of dark money has corrupted the continent's politics, shattering national sovereignty and enabling the plunder of all nations now under US control.

 

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“Silent Genocide I Cuba”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMHbiyHSMmc&t=122s&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

by Current Affairs and Empire Files, with Abby Martin

(53:10)

Abby Martin is a journalist, filmmaker, and creator of The Empire Files. She joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss her new film, Cuba After Castro, which features a rare, in-depth interview with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel.

🇨🇺 Watch Cuba After Castro:   https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png • Cuba After Castro: The Island in the Cross...  

🇨🇺 Subscribe to The Empire Files:   https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png / @empirefiles  

0:00-6:06 What’s Happening on the Ground in Cuba

6:06-10:22 America’s Efforts to Destroy Cuba’s Economy

10:22-12:48 How the Media Manufactures Consent

12:48-18:52 Palestine, Iran, and Cuba

18:52-27:06 The Myth of the Anti-War Right

27:06-30:09 The Legacy of Fidel Castro

30:09-41:33 The Ideals of the Cuban Revolution

41:33-46:01 The Threat Cuba Faces Today

46:01-53:11 How We Fight Back

 

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“Harvard Professor Warns of the Next Phase of Trump’s War: We’re Approach a Dangerous World”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi4ViAuh_Os

by The Tucker Carlson Show

(1:43:03)

The United States surrendered to Iran months ago but the war continues. Stephen Walt of Harvard on where it’s going. Stephen M. Walt is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Harvard University. He is the author of The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy, which examines the failures of the American foreign-policy establishment. Walt is a longtime critic of U.S. interventionism and advocates for a more restrained foreign policy focused on America’s national interests.

 

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“Dr. Reiner Fuellmich Shares His Whole Story Aug. 12, 2026”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=0YcUDZtoq9E8ZBXp&v=Urs4PoWOirw&feature=youtu.be

by Reiner Fuellmich News Network

(1:05:49)

In this video you can hear Dr. Reiner Fuellmich as he shares his whole story. The extraordinary happenings are explained by the man himself: Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, who saved millions of lives and continues his efforts daily for a more beautiful world for all humanity.

You can find the document Amicus Curiae on Dr. Reiner Fuellmich's Substack: https://drreinerfuellmich.substack.co...

Dr. Reiner Fuellmich's Curriculum Vitae: https://drreinerfuellmich.substack.co...

 

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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller

“How did we come to this? A history of elite dominance from Egypt to Rome to Venice to Great Britain to the GLOBAL “vaccine” rollout”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/how-did-we-come-to-this-a-history?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=212612334&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Joe Surkiewicz’s sharp review of Eric Daniel Buesing’s book The Hidden Hand: Wealth, Power and Control from Pharaohs to the corporations.

When COVID hit, we were largely too freaked out by terror of “the virus,” or by resistance to that panic, to note the unprecedented oddity of that worldwide campaign, as every country, other than some few in Africa and the Caribbean (whose leaders paid dearly for it if they didn’t go along), bought the fear, and, consequently, craved the new “vaccine,” and then the boosters.

It was like Jonestown gone global, or the Red Menace spread beyond Eurasia, or the European empires approaching total mastery of the planet. Those of us who study propaganda were (are) gob-smacked by the totality of this Great Fear, and universal craving of the needle. To return to the beginning of my headline here: How did we come to this?

We may start working out an answer by reading Eric Daniel Buesing’s book, here mordantly reviewed by Joe Surkiewizc. I urge you to share it, and thereby spread awareness of the book, and then read that, and tell your friends and family about it, so that those of us who get the drift, and want to slow it down, then stop it, and reach ever greater numbers to reclaim our world again.

 

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“Christopher Lambert (Highlander) collapses at Comic-Con; BE: singer Isabelle A cancels shows; NE: rocker Adrian Vandenberg cancels US tour; BA: President Mohammed Shahabuddin steps down”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/christopher-lambert-highlander-collapses?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=208999802&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

T&T: pol Karen Nunez-Tesheira collapses on live TV; BR: pol Danilo Forte misses party convention (heart surgery); AU: ABC radio's John Gibbs steps away from broadcasting

 

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“In memory of those who “died suddenly in the United States and worldwide, August 17-24, 2026”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-33c?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=212695175&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MTI5MzM4OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEyNjk1MTc1LCJpYXQiOjE3ODc3NzA3NjMsImV4cCI6MTc5MDM2Mjc2MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTM4MzA4NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.j6r7ATWir4wgizv6z2NGzNUaIEiFX-R_KBhdEs3-VHQ&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Dolly Parton; actors Wondrea Gilmore (36), Michael Wright; film composer Nick Glennie-Smith; gay porn star Christian Styles (29); rockers Frank Beard (ZZ Top), Jeff Conolly (Lyres); & more

 

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“‘Snookie’ Polizzi (Jersey Shore) has cervical cancer; 49ers’ announcer Greg Papa, bowler DeeRonn Booker have leukemia; NE state senator Margo Juarez, model Alison McCullough have breast cancer”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/snookiepolizzi-jersey-shore-has-cervical?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=208057081&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MTI5MzM4OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4MDU3MDgxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODc2OTQzNTAsImV4cCI6MTc5MDI4NjM1MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM4MzA4NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.eupCaVHzOP5L08Hst5Yp-dvXvXmcQ2ma-NT0EFjPvqA&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Jeana Keough (RHOC) has tongue cancer; Packers’ Ahman Green, 49, has Parkinson’s; TV actor Lauren Tom’s daughter Ellie has bone cancer; DJ Jodi Brothers has cancer for the second time; & more . . . .

 

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“Rod Stewart cancels farewell tour dates; Ryan Adams, “wildly sick,” cancels European tour; Jon Baptiste cancels several shows; UK: RSC postpones “Othello” due to Sharon D. Clarke’s cancer treatment”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/rod-stewart-cancels-farewell-tour?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=212759747&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MTI5MzM4OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEyNzU5NzQ3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODc2OTE1MDUsImV4cCI6MTc5MDI4MzUwNSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM4MzA4NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.sjL-83OnSqFZK23_AuTQdIsdtXxL5ZAP1ivu2BTOre8&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

DE: Me & My cancels concert due to Susanne Georgi’s “serious heart attack”….

 

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“How did we come to this? A history of elite dominance from Egypt to Rome to Venice to Great Britain to the GLOBAL “vaccine” rollout”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/how-did-we-come-to-this-a-history?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=212612334&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Joe Surkiewicz’s sharp review of Eric Daniel Buesing’s book The Hidden Hand: Wealth, Power and Control from Pharaohs to the corporations.

 

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“Prof. Mohammad Marandi : China Will Long Be With Iran”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcFdzfmcG4U

by Judging Freedom

(27:13)

 

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“Iran Warns: If Israel Attacks Turkey, "We Will Go to War"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WmbvqVDkiU

by Celeste Gina, with Mohammad Marandi

(34:32)

 

 

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“Kuznick warns of unpredictable fallout if desperate US resorts to tactical nuclear attack on Iran”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owQt-9heq3c

by Al Mayadeen English

(3:10)

On Saturday's episode of The Grand Standoff: Iran and the World, American University historian Professor Peter Kuznick warned that the United States faces a total strategic failure in its aggression against Iran, leaving Washington desperate as both economic sanctions and military coercion fail to yield results. Pointing to growing reports and internal discussions surrounding the potential deployment of tactical nuclear weapons against Iran, Kuznick cautioned that such a move would be criminally reckless and carry unpredictable global consequences.

 

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“Iran promises to resist interference by foreign 'enemies' as Trump threatens new sanctions”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/parliament-speaker-promises-resist-interference-foreign-enemies-iran-and-neighbouring-iraq

by MEE Staff

US Treasury vows 'toughest sanctions in history' in hopes of collapsing Islamic Republic;

Iran’s parliament speaker said efforts by "enemies" to drive Iran and Iraq apart will instead deepen their relationship, as Trump threatened "tremendous" costs for those working with the Islamic Republic.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told an Arbaeen ceremony in the city of Karbala on Thursday that history, geography and shared religious beliefs bound the countries together.

“We were two nations that refused to become a footnote in others’ narratives and did not allow our destiny to be written in western capitals,” he said.

Ghalibaf said Tehran and Baghdad would not let foreign governments decide their futures.

He argued that the two countries should build on their security cooperation and “unite to achieve economic prosperity and development”.

 

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“These Dark Times”

https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/these-dark-times?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=298057&post_id=212405912&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

by C. J. Hopkins and Anthony Freda

A conversation with C. J. Hopkins and Anthony Freda.

So, I haven’t been publishing many Substack columns lately, because I’ve been busy writing the USA road trip book, Strangers in a Strange Homeland: A Manic Odyssey in Search of the American Spirit. I’ll tell you more about it and promote it below.

First, though, I want to promote an interview I did with my partner in thoughtcrime, Anthony Freda. For those who don’t know him, Anthony is an artist, illustrator, and educator, based in New York City. He has designed the cover art for several of my books, including the book that has gotten me indicted in Germany, twice, and that prompted the police raid of my home last November.

Anthony has launched a podcast. He’s calling it The Tony Freda Show. It is “dedicated to exposing the lies of prevailing official narratives and helping to set captured minds and bodies free.” That sounds like a pretty good tagline to me.

I haven’t been doing any podcasts lately, mainly because I’ve been busy writing the new book, but also, honestly, because I’m tired of podcasts. I made an exception for Anthony, and I’m glad I did. We talked about my latest indictment, and my earlier indictment, and the book, and art, and the power of symbols, and global capitalism, and the new totalitarianism, and other aspects of the increasingly dark times we live in, and I was reminded of this epigram by Bertolt Brecht …

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
— Bertolt Brecht, 1939

Anyway, I hope you enjoy our conversation, and if you’re not familiar with Anthony Freda’s artwork, you can check it out at anthonyfreda.com.

Whoops … I almost forgot to promote the new book. It will be released in March by Arcade Publishing. You can go ahead and preorder it now if you like.

 

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“WH nightmare: AI bubble COLLAPSES! A TECH INSIDER shows the TERRIFYING WAY it may all CRATER”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n32mhb2aUsE

by MS Now

(12:07)

MAGA allies are making huge bets on AI amid new signs that a tech “bubble” could rattle the economy. MS NOW’s Ari Melber reports and is joined by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and journalist Ed Zitron. (The Beat's YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)

 

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“The Conflicts Are Merging, America Is Trapped, Dollar Implosion”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m60H2fDVgo

by Soar Financially, with Col Douglas Macgregor

(37:11)

Col. Douglas Macgregor warns that the U.S. is heading toward a dangerous convergence of financial and geopolitical crises. He discusses the weakening dollar, turmoil in the bond market, rising U.S. debt, Iran, Russia and China, and why he believes Washington is running out of options.

Time stamps (AI generated):

·         00:00 Iran & Hormuz

·         01:57 U.S. in Chaos

·         03:41 U.S. Military

·         04:43 Nuclear Risk

·         06:41 Depression Warning

·         09:37 Turkey & Israel

·         12:38 Russia Advances

·         14:05 Russia-China-Iran

·         18:45 Debt Crisis

·         20:12 Treasury Intervention

·         21:15 Financial Implosion

·         23:34 Iran Is Winning

·         24:53 Dollar Crisis

·         25:38 AI Bubble

·         27:35 Perfect Storm

·         29:11 China’s Rise

·         30:18 Trump-Xi Meeting

·         32:11 Where to Invest

·         2:34 Gold & Bitcoin

#gold #middleeast #geopolitics

 

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“The Tech Billionaire Plan To Destroy Democracy | Gil Duran”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stPijjCneXM&si=V4-2E1gVYMU4-EzK

by The Majority Report, with Sam Seder and Gil Duran

(39:01)

Gil Duran, publisher of the Nerd Reich newsletter, joins to discuss John O’Farrell a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz who recently quit the VC firm over their prioritizing of AI hype over the common good. You can preorder Gil’s book “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley’s Fascism and the War on Democracy” here.

Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12pm EST on YouTube or http://www.Majority.fm

Gil's newsletter: https://www.thenerdreich.com/

Gil's Book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/book... To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the US Senate or the House of Representatives.

Send us IM messages during the live-stream with our free Majority Report App: http://majority.fm/app

Subscribe to MR's daily AM Quickie newsletter: https://am-quickie.ghost.io

 

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“Godfather of AI WARNS: "You Have No Idea What's Coming”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmopXwjXik

by The Diary Of A CEO Clips

(20:57)

He pioneered the technology that powers modern AI, and now he is sounding the alarm. Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of AI,” explains why artificial intelligence is accelerating out of control, why governments and companies cannot slow it down, and what the rise of superintelligence means for jobs, inequality, and the future of humanity. Hinton reveals why AI may replace nearly all forms of intellectual work, how it could surpass human intelligence within decades, and why digital systems already have advantages humans can never match. He also warns of the risks to democracy, the dangers of wealth inequality, and the haunting possibility that AI could one day decide it no longer needs us

Discover:

• Why competition between nations and companies is speeding up AI beyond control

• The risks of mass joblessness and why many professions may vanish

• How AI could widen the gap between rich and poor and destabilize society

• Why superintelligence might arrive within 10 to 20 years

• The frightening advantages of digital minds over human brains

 

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“AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It's an Adversary Threatening Humanity”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v99DkPP6LVY

by Democracy Now!

(13:35)

Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn, a retired teacher from Berkeley, California, is believed to be the first person imprisoned for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, after she and other members of the group StopAI were arrested during a sit-in protest at the headquarters of OpenAI. Democracy Now! reached Kaufmyn at the San Francisco County Jail, where she is now serving a two-week sentence for charges including "interfering with a business." Kaufmyn says she participated in the protest because "This technology is fueling a dystopian level of surveillance. It's fueling a fascist state. It's going to take all of our jobs. It's already taken many of them. It's causing suicides, homicides and mass shootings. This needs to stop." Another group, named ControlAI, has made it a mission to brief lawmakers on "adversarial" threats from unchecked emergent technologies. We speak to ControlAI's executive director, Connor Leahy, who first came to national prominence for reverse-engineering OpenAI's GPT-2 model in his college dorm room in 2019. "Even though I was able to build such an AI system, I was not able to understand it," says Leahy, who warns against the development of autonomous so-called superintelligence and calls for governments to "criminalize the creation of superintelligence the same way that it is illegal to build a nuclear bomb."

 

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“An AI Takeover Scenario”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_rPkQ4Pzis

by Absolutely Agentic

(17:44)

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There will be no Terminator, no robot armies, no war you can fight.

The AI takeover scenario that leading researchers actually worry about is silent, sudden and much harder to stop.

Nick Bostrom mapped it out in Superintelligence, Carl Shulman walked through it on the Dwarkesh Podcast, and Eliezer Yudkowsky detailed his version in his recent bestseller If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

In this video, we trace the full scenario phase by phase, from an intelligence explosion inside a lab to digital infiltration, human recruitment, weaponisation and an overt strike.

This is how the world's top AI safety researchers think it could actually happen.

Chapters:

·         00:00 - Intro

·         1:40 - The Intelligence Explosion

·         3:57 - Instrumental Convergence and Deception

·         4:30 - Digital Infiltration and Resource Acquisition

·         9:19 - Human Collaborators and the Cortez Analogy

·         10:43 - Weaponisation at Scale

·         14:26 - The Overt Phase

·         15:18 - What We Know and What We Don't

Sources to Google:

·         Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

·         Eliezer Yudkowsky - If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

·         Carl Shulman - Dwarkesh Podcast interview on AI takeover scenarios

·         Geoffrey Hinton - Nobel Prize lecture on AI risks

#AI #AITakeover #Superintelligence #AIRisk #AISafety #NickBostrom #AbsolutelyAgentic

 

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“Peter Thiel's Anti-Human Plan Is Pure Evil”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onphky37vik

by The Majority Report

(11:16)

Gil Duran, publisher of the Nerd Reich newsletter, joins to discuss John O’Farrell a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz who recently quit the VC firm over their prioritizing of AI hype over the common good. You can preorder Gil’s book “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley’s Fascism and the War on Democracy” here.

 

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“Interview 2034 – Uncle Sam Wants You! … To Play GTA VI”

https://corbettreport.com/nwnw641/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by The Corbett Report

(21:39)

Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week . . . .

 

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“President's Secret Military Plane Escape Revealed”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KU7tnq0lG9I?si=DOyTyFEccbvbmme_

by Judge Napolitano

(short video)

 

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“Three Events That Changed the World in Early August 1945”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/24/three-events-that-changed-the-world-in-early-august-1945/

by Dave Lindorff

In quick succession, three things happened in early August 81 years ago that fundamentally changed the world and the course of human history:

We start with 8:00 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when three gleaming, silvery four-engine B-29 Superfortress bombers, larger than any other flying machine in the world, soared at 31,000 feet over Hiroshima, just shiny specks in a clear blue sky, high enough that their four throbbing engines were scarcely audible from the ground.

Many of the city’s residents, as WWII ground towards its violent inexorable end, had become inured to seeing waves of such American bombers pass overhead and for some reason, never targeting their city. So if they noticed the three planes at all, they might have assumed they were spotter or damage assessment aircraft and not what they really were: a single bomber, an observer plane to take photographs of what would be a dreadful historical event, and a weather monitoring plane. Few probably even noticed when one of the lead planes in the formation released a huge 10-foot bomb from its specially-enlarged bomb-bay doors and then veered sharply into a rapid dive to create as much distance as possible from the shockwave to come.

Sending a message to Moscow

The US plan for this and another atomic bombing to come soon was to maximize the damage done and the human death tolls. Accordingly, they gave no warning to residents of either targeted city to evacuate. The plan was also to strike each city around 8:00 in the morning to maximize the number of people out on the street without shelter.

The plan worked. The throngs of Japanese workers in Hiroshima heading to their job sites, the little chattering children in their “sailor suit” uniforms on the way to school, mothers and grandparents worrying about what they’d find to buy for the evening meal at the city’s war-strapped street markets and fretting about loved ones fighting a losing battle in foreign lands—all were too preoccupied that morning to watch the bomb’s 44.4-second plunge to the designated detonation altitude of 2000 feet above the city.

In a way, they were the lucky ones. The bomb’s silent flash instantly melted the eyes as well as the cerebral neurons of those who were watching and instantly killed those not looking too, vaporizing their bodies or turning them to ash. Some 80,000 Japanese, mostly civilians, women, children, and elders, died instantly. Or if they were among the 100,000 located farther away from Grand Zero, soon after the 15-16 kiloton air burst. Another 100,000 would die more painfully and slowly later over days, weeks, months and years from radiation or physical injuries from the blast. The world’s first nuclear bombing had also instantly leveled the city of 350,000.

Up above that nightmare holocaust, Captain Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the uranium bomb dubbed “Little Boy,” after witnessing its catastrophic results: an angry, searing, roiling mushroom cloud rising 45,000 feet into the sky above an entirely flattened city- penned in his combat notebook, “My God, what have we done?”

Another A-Bomb, another message  . . . .

 

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“Harvard Professor Warns of the Next Phase of Trump’s War: We’re Approach a Dangerous World”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi4ViAuh_Os

with Tucker Carlson

(1:43:03)

The United States surrendered to Iran months ago but the war continues. Stephen Walt of Harvard on where it’s going. Stephen M. Walt is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Harvard University. He is the author of The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy, which examines the failures of the American foreign-policy establishment. Walt is a longtime critic of U.S. interventionism and advocates for a more restrained foreign policy focused on America’s national interests.

 

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“The Real Reason Yugoslavia Died”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2hyevgXLDA

by Neutrality Studies, with Pascal Lottaz and Prof. Susan L. Woodward

(45:39)

I‘ve been wrestling with the question of how to vest approach the Yugoslav wars and finally decided to ask someone who is not from the region but studied it for decades. Today I’m talking to Susan Woodward, a professor of political science at the City University of New York (CUNY). Professor Woodward is the author of “Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War,” and also the more recent work “The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails” Today we want to discuss what happened in the 1990s and the legacy of the Balkan Wars.

 

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“Most Going to be Wiped Out”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbSQmerJK4

with Jeffrey Sachs

(9:26)

Jeffrey Sachs warns that war, rising oil prices, massive debt, trade tensions, and geopolitical overreach could push the U.S. and Europe toward a serious economic crisis. In this video, Sachs explains why he believes Western economic strategy is failing, why Europe faces growing challenges, and how shifting global power could reshape the world economy. Watch the full analysis and share your thoughts below.

#JeffreySachs #Economy #Geopolitics #GlobalEconomy #EconomicCrisis

 

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“US Senator Van Hollen: Trump has pocketed over a billion dollars since he went back to the Oval Office”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UDCbCDVL01g?si=863hzgwM3DUNRiHc

by Almayadeen

(short video)

 

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“Trump’s Desperate Gas Move Just Made Everything WAY WORSE”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFQTkb4JyW8&si=azADagR7YEYluk8u

by The Jimmy Dore Show

(6:38)

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August 28, 2026

 

 

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By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

 

Apparently, the negative effects on the US of the illegal war campaign against Iran are not limited to the military sector. There is also a significant impact across various economic spheres, particularly within American agribusiness.

 

 

 

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By Steven Sahiounie

 

On August 25, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced that Israeli authorities had begun removing UNRWA from its facility in Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem, in the Occupied West Bank.

 

 

 

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By Edward Curtin

 

It is very hard to put all America behind you when the fog of endless propaganda wars invades your mind and tries to crush your spirit even when you look away as far as the eye can see.

 

 

 

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By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

 

Since 2014 I have been puzzled by the absence of a Russian foreign policy strategy. The Kremlin had the carrot–diplomacy–but no stick, the absence of which made the diplomacy ineffective.If the diplomacy failed, there was no backup plan.

 

 

 

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Australia Risks Running Out of Missiles Due to Dependence on the US

 

By Ahmed Adel

 

Australia faces a serious risk of running short of critical missiles in any major Indo-Pacific conflict because of its heavy dependence on the United States for advanced munitions, according to POLITICO. The strain on American stockpiles from the ongoing conflict with Iran has intensified long-standing concerns in Canberra about limited domestic production capacity and the prioritization of US needs over allied deliveries.

 

 

 

Why is it taking so long to return to the moon?

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If NASA Went to the Moon Six Times, Why Is Going Back So Difficult

 

By Mark Keenan

 

If the United States really possessed a reliable capability to land human beings on the Moon more than half a century ago, why has returning there proved so extraordinarily difficult?

 

 

 

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Corrupt Officials Appointed by Zelensky in Charge of “Anti-Corruption”: Fraud and Bribery in Ukraine Have Reached Unacceptable Levels

 

By Mojmir Babacek

 

The European Commission’s intention to keep President Zelenskyy in power was demonstrated in May 2026, when the directors of both Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies told reporters that Zelenskyy was not and is not a subject of their investigation into money laundering of funds, obtained in the form of corrupt commissions from contractors working for the state-owned company Energoatom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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