U.S.-Israel are leading mafia takeover of Earth

• Israel continues to terrorize Lebanon and unleash destruction. Israel continues to destroy Southern Lebanese villages, villages that are older than their holy books. This is pure terrorism. I can’t believe how normalized this has become. I can’t fathom how this is happening and Israel is not getting ANY slap on the wrist. We can’t just wait for Iran and expect everything from Iran. There are 100+ other countries, 8 billion people. And this shit is happening in front of our eyes. Beautiful people getting killed. We’re talking about people that were born, lived for years, had dreams and loved ones, just wiped out in an instant … and for what? Israeli domination. 

• A senior EU official: Israel will likely enter a direct war against Iran in the coming weeks, and after the World Cup, the United States will join Israel.
• Hebrew Channel Kan: 'Trump's Peace Council' publishes: Arrival of the first vehicles at the Multinational Force (ISF) base, which is supposed to 'operate' in Gaza.

• Yemen Military: "After not allowing the temporary entity [Israel] to build bases on Somaliland, the entity may resort to some naive Arabs to launch airstrikes on Yemen...Any aggression against Yemen means the entire region will be blown up."
• Investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr: Peter Thiel is a believer in transhumanism. When he was interviewed the New York Times’s Ross Douthat, he hesitated for much longer than you’d think possible, when he was asked whether he wanted humanity to survive. Javier Milei’s government in Argentina announced in the pages of the Financial Times that Argentina was inviting AI “to free itself” in Argentina. He was bringing in new legislation that would see Argentina become the first country in the world where an AI could own a company. Peter Thiel, the man who owns Palantir, embedded in the heart of America’s ICE apparatus, its AI war machine and Britain’s NHS, moved his family to Buenos Aires a couple of months ago…but what was he doing there?' 

• It’s not just Argentina where 300,000 Zionists are buying up Patagonia. (And where Israel has bought up the national water system of Argentina.) Now Israeli colonizers have descended on Peru's mountains, where they’re covering trail markers at campgrounds with photos of IOF soldiers, and demanding no one else enter “their” land. This arrogance, now going global, indicates just what they have meant by their slogan 'Greater Israel'. They want control of the entire planet. Israeli's are the storm troopers for the global mafia.
• China is taking a lead in Venezuela. China provided Venezuela with satellite images of the affected areas to support relief and assistance efforts. Chinese companies and associations in Venezuela have donated construction machinery and critical medical supplies for emergencies. They have also formed their own teams to actively support in search and rescue tasks. The Chinese government will deliver, as soon as possible, an additional 100 million yuan ($14.7 million) in emergency material assistance.”  This is on top of previous immediate cash assistance.

Sputnik: NATO is working on advanced weapons systems for Ukraine designed to disable Russian airfields and airbases, including those located deep inside Russian territory. NATO's plans to develop advanced weapons systems in the interests of Kiev are recklessly aggressive, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Monday. Kiev is stepping up its attempts to push NATO into direct armed conflict with Russia, while NATO is gradually losing its remaining rationality, using Ukraine as a "testing ground," Zakharova added.

• Sovereignista: The honorable and acceptable process of being in war, and then solving whatever is left by negotiation, should be questioned seriously in our current circumstances.  There is no need for Iran to negotiate with the US. The US is the aggressor and needs to leave. You don’t negotiate with an aggressor that wants to draw blood or oil from you and kill you if you don’t agree. It is similar for countries under the whip of the ‘Donroe’ Doctrine. Negotiation with empire signals weakness. It signals that you need to speak with them in order to continue the life of your country and your citizens. This amounts to asking for permission for being human. Countries need to dispense with the absurd claim that Trump or the US, seeks peace. No, they seek oil and money and primacy. They are barbarians. One invites them into your country for ‘talks’ at your own peril. Bear in mind that we see clear signs of a religious war. This war is against the Shia. Iran is Shia.  Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Sunni. Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of Ron Paul Institute, states that the 'CIA is carrying out a coup in Iraq and opening a new front – encircling Iran'.  Syria is massacring Shia and Alawites.  Just yesterday a complete Shia town was told to pack up their goods and leave.  This is not a one-off event, but happens regularly.  Syria was asked (by Trump) to help fight against Hezbollah. When the few run the world, the many should rise.
• Germany could reinstate conscription as early as late July 2027 because its volunteer-based recruitment system is insufficient to meet Berlin’s military buildup plans, senior lawmaker Thomas Rowekamp has told AFP.

• Estonia will accept Ukrainian drones violating its airspace as long as they cause damage in Russia, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna has said.
• Ukraine is deepening its cooperation with Mexican drug cartels to profit from the flow of narcotics, including fentanyl, into the EU, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has said. Trump has made combating fentanyl exports to the US one of his priorities, designating it as a ‘weapon of mass destruction’. In a statement on Monday, the SVR said the Ukrainian security agencies are deliberately showing leniency toward the growing flow of drugs from Latin America to Europe, adding that Kiev is facilitating the trade due to its financial crisis.

• The European Union risks entering the coming heating season with its lowest gas reserves in 15 years, potentially driving up energy costs for households and businesses, the Financial Times reported on Monday.  The bloc has faced soaring energy prices since scaling back Russian oil and gas imports following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict four years ago. The shift away from relatively cheap Russian pipeline gas has left Europe increasingly reliant on more expensive liquefied natural gas (LNG), particularly from the US.

Shabtai Secret Society of a zionist sort

JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy are both documented members of the Shabtai Society — Yale's secret society with unreported ties to the Epstein network, Israeli intelligence, and the BJP (India) diaspora. This is the connection nobody in mainstream media will map out honestly.

In this episode of The Dossier, I break down the full picture: What the Shabtai Society is and why its membership list matters. JD Vance's Shabtai ties versus his America First branding — what his donor network actually reveals. Vivek Ramaswamy's membership and its connection to BJP and Israeli defense industry networks. The Indian government soft power overlap inside American elite institutions. And how the same Yale ecosystem that produced Shabtai produced the social infrastructure Epstein used to build his influence and blackmail operation.

Senator Cory Booker (Democrat from New Jersey) and presidential primary candidate in the last national election is also part of this group. He sold his soul long ago. 

Tucker Carlson has been pulling on the JD Vance thread. Candace Owens has been asking who's really running the Trump administration. 

Now it's time to connect every dot. The society is real. The memberships are documented. The connections are there. And this conversation isn't going away. 

Iran has lost all trust in the U.S.

• In response to US attacks on 5 points at Iran’s southern coast, the IRGC retaliated with missile & drone attacks. Fars News, quoting a security & military expert: The IRGC targeted 8 US military infrastructures, including strategic and highly populated shelters, the marine control and data processing center, watchtowers, radar and communication systems at US Ali al Salem Air Base, Kuwait and US 5th Fleet Naval support base, Bahrain.

• IRGC also says that from now on violating ships will receive heavier blows if they do not coordinate with Iran. It also warns the US that their attacks violate the first clause of the MoU. US is building up forces & equipment in the region. Violation of Clause 9.  War & occupation in Lebanon and Palestine continue. Violation of Clauses 1 and 13.  None of Iran’s frozen assets have been released yet. Violation of Clause 11.
• According to Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. CENTCOM, there are more than 50,000 American troops currently in the Middle East.
• Omani Foreign Minister: The Sultanate does not support imposing fees on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in compliance with the rules of international law. [Someone got to Oman and they changed their tune on this issue.] 

• Iranian President, Pezeshkian: Iran’s six billion dollars frozen assets in Qatar, out of the 12 billion will be released soon.
• Israeli media, quoting a senior official in the occupation army: "We are preparing to operate independently in Iran without US assistance. This may happen soon." Defense Minister Yisrael Katz: "I have instructed the IDF to prepare for Operation Blue and White in Iran, and the IDF is eagerly awaiting it."
• Speaking to Al Mayadeen, Professor Mohammad Marandi asserted that Iran never expected the US to implement the memorandum of understanding, stressing that the “Iranians have no trust in the Trump regime.” He also added that “Iran knew that the US would drag its feet as much as possible,” arguing that it had agreed to electronic signatures without a formal ceremony because of that distrust, adding that Iran’s leverage lies in its control of the Strait of Hormuz. Marandi further asserted that “Iran won the war,” and warned that “Iran will continue to use that leverage” until the US fulfills its commitments, saying the future of the agreement depends on whether the US ultimately honors its side of the deal. As for the signed framework agreement between the Lebanese authorities and the Israeli occupation, Professor Marandi said it is an attempt by Washington to violate the US-Iran MoU and an attempt by the US to “undermine the agreement”.

• Max Blumenthal: Sold-out Lebanese authorities have given the green light by Marco Rubio to Israel to extend its invasion of the country’s south, validating its ethnic cleansing of Shia citizens. Rubio, a pet project of the Israel lobby, is delivering a hammer blow to the MOU, and shivving JD Vance. Axios, citing officials: Trump spoke with the Lebanese president and congratulated him on signing the framework agreement with Israel.
• Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem: Linking Israeli withdrawal to disarming the resistance in all of Lebanon is a very dangerous proposal that crosses all red lines and turns Lebanon into a pawn in the hands of the enemy. The agreement reached in Washington is a humiliating, disgraceful, and illegitimate agreement. Instead, the provisions of the Iran–US understanding regarding a ceasefire in Lebanon should be implemented. 

• Hebrew Channel Kann: The Israeli army has received instructions to begin preparing for the new deployment in accordance with the agreement reached with Lebanon.
• Marwa Osman: It will be written in the margins of history that when the world isolated terrorist Israel. When nations rejected this entity. When even the US could no longer bear the political cost of Netanyahu’s massacres. When the world longed to see Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich held accountable for the crimes they committed against our people. It was the Lebanese authorities who stepped forward to rescue them, to legitimize their occupation and provide cover for their crimes against us, from the killing of the youngest infant to the destruction of entire villages. Shame. But shame will not endure forever. It will be erased only by the heroes of the Resistance in the South, the Beqaa, and Beirut. We will drive out the occupation. We will return to our villages. We will rebuild them. And we will consign this Lebanese government to the dustbin of history. 

• The Iran–US memorandum of understanding (MoU) is not regarded by the US and Israel as a ceasefire agreement; they also have a pattern of violating truces, states Dr. Greg Simons, professor of journalism at Daffodil International University. "They violate the conditions and then blame the opponent," Dr. Greg Simons says. "This is nothing which is unexpected. This is how they behave. The Americans are a declining empire. Their military is melting down. If they have a wider war, that's going to be accelerating the collapse of Pax Americana," Simons concludes.
• Buried in this year's defense bill is House Amendment #319, filed by Representatives Zach Nunn (R-IA) and Don Davis (D-NC). It orders the Secretary of Defense to stand up a Pentagon Defense Innovation Unit office on Israeli soil within 180 days of the bill becoming law. A piece of the Pentagon, relocated to Israel. [Genocidal Israel and US are now joined at the hip with taxpayers covering the bill.]

• Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has ordered Iran’s Judiciary to pursue prosecution of American and Israeli officials for war crimes committed during the 2025 and 2026 attacks on Iran. The Leader cited the Minab school massacre killing 170 students and teachers, and the Lamerd sports hall strike that killed 24 civilians including young volleyball players. He declared these constitute hundreds of legal cases that must be pursued domestically and internationally. The message emphasized that perpetrators’ public admissions amount to acknowledgment of criminal liability under international law.
• Israeli attack targeted tents of displaced people in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip tonight.

• Venezuela despite its current problems is beloved. Mexico was in first, with 5 planes full of equipment and emergency workers. Cuban doctors are on the ground in La Guaira, Venezuela, helping the people affected by the recent earthquake. Yes folks, in the midst of an extreme pressure campaign by the US, against this Cuban program, Cuban doctors continue to do what they do best, save lives and help those in need. Death and injuries rank in the thousands.
• Stars & Stripes: A sailor’s fatal fall in 2023 sparked a Navy probe that uncovered a drug distribution network aboard the Pentagon aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and led to punishment for 58 sailors.
• Former US State Department advisor James Carden sets the record straight: “The Tomahawk missiles won’t change a thing. No more than the HIMARS, Patriot, or F-16. The war is lost. And it’s Ukraine, not Russia, that’s on the brink of the abyss.” And he adds: “Ukraine has been attacking these Donbass territories since 2014. The Ukrainians aren’t entirely honest. They say they want the eastern lands and the Donbass, but without the ethnic Russians who live there. Over the past 30 years, they’ve done everything to strip these people of their rights.” [This statement destroys years of Western propaganda. The admission of ethnic cleansing of Russian-speaking Ukrainians by Ukrainian Nazis.]

• Professor Yu Dal-seung of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies told Tehran Times that the US-Israeli war on Iran has prompted many South Koreans to question Western narratives. He noted economic disruptions from the conflict encouraged people to examine the war’s real causes. However, Western media still dominate South Korea’s international news, preventing deep change. Younger generations using diverse social media sources show more openness. Yu stressed that lasting perception change requires sustained educational and cultural exchanges, not just digital outreach. He described Iran as his “second homeland” from decades of study.
• The Observer: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is stepping down following a revolt within his own party, is interested in becoming the next secretary general of NATO. Starmer is interested in becoming NATO secretary general once Mark Rutte’s term expires in 2028, unless it is extended.
• Nodutdol is a US based organization of mostly young Koreans and Korean-Americans living in the US. They report: For decades, the media narrative surrounding North Korea has focused on extreme isolation, famine, and economic decay. But recent articles from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reveal a jarring new reality: a booming economy complete with new skylines, Chinese EVs, modern restaurants, and widespread smartphone technology. Earlier this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a historic state visit to Pyongyang, marking his first trip to North Korea in seven years. The meeting actually marks an important development in the Beijing-Pyongyang strategic partnership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2KP0jtV3XI

JFK's silent battle with Israel over nukes

JFK experts Wally Rashid and Ken McCarthy share new bombshell research that exposes JFK's silent battle with Israel over nukes, and a discovery that may link the IDF to JFK's assassination. 

And here are the State Department documents Wally gained access to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uyeB-yQuB4UFw-Bvmo6fUJjPZSqikIbE/edit

00:00 Intro

00:25 JFK’s “sour” relationship with AIPAC

01:50 JFK silent battle with Israel over nuclear weapons

03:30 Israel built fake room at nuclear site to deceive U.S. inspectors

04:53 JFK put forward UN resolution for Palestinian right of return

05:59 CIA’s one man “Israel desk” James Angleton was helping get material for nukes

08:50 Wally’s new discovery: IDF chief was in Dallas day JFK was assassinated

10:58 “Assassination industrial complex” doesn’t want to hear it

Wally Rashid is a Palestinian-American journalist and the host of The Wally Rashid Show. 

Ken McCarthy is a JFK researcher and the author of "JFK and RFK's Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism: The Documentary Evidence" and "John F. Kennedy Anti-Imperialist: His Character and Intentions Revealed in Five Speeches and One Telegram." 

United States of Palantir

 By Geopolitics Prime (Telegram)

We spent an entire month digging into how Palantir wrapped its tentacles around every lever of the US machine. Everything below — authentic, documented, officially registered deals and programs.

The titles are clickable, so you can follow the links and read more:

🌏 How Palantir merged 75 contracts into a $10B Pentagon lock: now it runs the war machine's backbone

🌏 USDA hands Palantir $300M and a single file on every farmer

🌏 Silent takeover: Palantir became the Air Force's operating system long before anyone noticed

🌏 US Marines under digital control: Project Dynamis puts one-click kill authority into every Marine's hands

🌏 A decade in the shadows: Running missions before contracts existed, now gatekeeping who gets in

🌏Palantir and DHS: Unified platform merges travel data facial scans and immigration records for enforcement

🌏Palantir and the IRS: Tax returns and crypto wallets piped straight to ICE skipping judicial approval

🌏Palantir and ICE: 4 billion records, one app, zero access rules documented

🌏Palantir and HSI: Your phone extracted, your contacts run against student visa databases

🌏Palantir and HHS: Millions of medical records searchable inside a defense contractor's system

🌏Palantir and CDC: Battlefield software now tracks outbreaks and decides who gets vaccines

🌏Palantir and FDA: Formula crisis let them in, now they own the data on everything America eats

Further investigations will cover: Palantir's deepening ties to the FBI, DOJ, CIA, CBP, NASA, and other federal agencies yet to be exposed.

What we already know is just the surface. More contracts, more integrations, and more agencies are being wired into the same private platform.

Sunday song

U.S.-Israel up to old dirty tricks in West Asia

Status of the end-of-war MoU — Day 8

War & occupation in Lebanon and Palestine continue. Violation of Clauses 1 and 13.

• The Strait of Hormoz is open free of charge.

• Iranian ships are passing through the blockade.

• So far, Iran’s frozen funds have not been made available. Violation of Clause 11.

• The suspension of oil sanctions was announced, but it has not yet been implemented.

• Threats against Iranian officials and Iran’s territorial integrity continue. Violation of Clause 3.

• Anti-Iranian statement by the US and its regional partners. Violation of Clauses 1 and 3.

• The communication line between CENTCOM and the IRGC, which had been approved in Switzerland contrary to the content of the MoU, was annulled.

• US attacked targets inside Iranian soil. Violation of the entire MoU. 

• The IRGC issued a statement after US attacked Sirik, southern Iran. 'Following the Zionist regime’s violation of the ceasefire in southern Lebanon, a few hours ago the treaty-breaking American regime also, as always, violated its commitments. Under various pretexts related to the movement of a violating ship through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormoz, it launched an air attack on the coasts of Iran. In response to this aggression, the IRGC-Navy struck the US military positions in Bahrain. According to Clause 5 of the Islamabad MoU, the arrangements for controlling passage and traffic in the Strait of Hormuz are under the authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, America, by provoking various sides, sought to violate this commitment, and the necessary response was given. From now on, it will be the same. If the aggression is repeated, our response will be broader than this.'

• In a Wall Street Journal report, the extent of the damage inflicted on US Navy’s Fleet base (NSA) in Bahrain following Iranian attacks, carried out between late February and June, was far more severe than what has so far been officially announced. According to the report, repeated attacks caused damage to its command building, at least a dozen other buildings, as well as two satellite communications stations. The cost of rebuilding the Bahrain base alone is estimated at around $400 million. This figure does not include the costs of debris removal, strengthening fortifications, or replacing equipment. The value of each of the two destroyed satellite communications stations is also estimated at around $20 million.
• Hebrew Israeli news website: The agreement between Israel, Lebanon, and the US grants official recognition from the Americans and the Beirut government of the presence of the Israeli army in the security zone, until Hezbollah is disarmed.

• Yedioth Ahronoth: Unlike the agreement concluded in November 2024, this time the agreement will be closely monitored by the US Army, which will also train the Lebanese Army.
• Hezbollah is preparing for possible civil war after the so-called negotiations with Lebanon, Israel and the US, assuring that Israel may stay in Lebanon. What was actually signed? Lebanon commits to fully disarming Hezbollah and every other non-state armed group on its own soil, in exchange for a gradual, “verified” IDF withdrawal carried out in stages through so-called pilot zones, with the US overseeing the whole process. Israel, for its part, signs nothing binding beyond a vague promise to eventually leave once it’s satisfied the disarmament is complete, on its own timeline, by its own verification. People in Lebanon are out on the streets to protest against the US-brokered deal signed between Lebanon and Israel. Footage circulating now shows Beirut’s government Serail surrounded by furious crowds after the Lebanese regime signed the agreement with Israel.

• Protesters have laid siege to the Serail, the seat of the Lebanese government, after news broke that Beirut formally signed the framework with Israel. Popular anger is spreading fast across the capital. The Lebanese western controlled puppet government appears to have deployed the military against protesters. There are reports of troops firing tear gas at crowds on the road to Beirut airport.
• Journalist Patrick Lawrence: I have been preoccupied with what I will call the quality of defeat for some years. By this I mean those benefits a people can derive from accepting loss when it comes to them: They can self-reflect, they can learn, fate has given them an opportunity to begin again. On the other side of this same moon, the darker side, a people or a nation that refuses to acknowledge defeat when they have been vanquished or otherwise turned back are self-condemned to a world of illusion and delusion. In this they lose all connection to the world around them. This question now lies before us once again. The US, led by an incompetent president and the prime minister of a viciously barbaric nation [Israel], a nation I judge to suffer a collective psychosis at this point, started a war with the Islamic Republic and lost it in a matter of a couple of months. Defeat, once again, makes opportunities, providing America is prepared to grasp them.
• Congresswoman casual reading of the Epstein files. 

• Politico: NATO expects the biggest disputes at the summit in Ankara, Turkey to be related to Ukraine. It is expected that at the NATO summit in Ankara in July 2026, issues of military aid to Ukraine will become a source of disagreement, with European countries planning a commitment to funding in the amount of €70 billion without US participation. Internal disputes also concern the fair distribution of the financial burden, Donald Trump's demands on Europe, and differences in approaches to the production of long-range weaponry.

• Human Rights Watch denounced Turkey’s arrest of over 200 people ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, saying it showed a “ruthless intolerance” of freedom of speech and assembly. The NATO summit takes place in Ankara on July 7-8. One was shot dead during a confrontation with police about 100 kilometers south of Ankara, security sources told Turkish media. Environmental NGO Tema Foundation also said some of its staff and volunteers had been arrested following a visit to a bird sanctuary, with the Medyascope news website saying the sweep included an unspecified number of birdwatchers in their 60s. On the eve of the raids, the Ankara governor’s office banned all public demonstrations and activities for 13 days from midnight on June 28, putting up large billboards along roads leading to the airport to hide poorer rundown areas from view, an AFP journalist and Turkish media reports said.
• After losing against Iran in 3 months, Trump says he can "finish the job" in Iran in less than a week. 

• The Israeli army kidnapped 4 civilians at the Majidiya-Ain Arab triangle in south Lebanon after they advanced into the area.
• Stars & Stripes: An Army base in southern Germany is investigating whether past firefighting exercises are to blame for toxic chemicals found in fish samples taken from area waterways. US Army Garrison Bavaria suspended fishing in five lakes and streams in the Grafenwoehr Training Area earlier this month after elevated levels of PFAS were discovered in the samples. PFAS, or human-made per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are long-lasting chemicals used to make products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease and water. They are also found in firefighting foam historically used at US military bases around the world. PFOS and PFOA are two common types. 

• Human Cost of War: Gaza: 1.027 killed since the beginning of Trump's Gaza plan (Palestinian Ministry of Health); at least 3,201 Israeli violations of Trump's Gaza plan (Gaza Government Media Office); 73,008 killed during Israel's genocide (Palestinian Ministry of Health). Iran: 3,468 killed (Iran Ministry of Health). Lebanon: 4,175 killed (Lebanon Ministry of Public Health); 1.1 million displaced (UN).

• Story by Mohamed Ahmed and Abdel Qader Sabbah from Gaza. Eleven-year-old Ahmed Al-Raqab was playing outside his family tent pitched on Gaza’s sandy coastline in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, on Wednesday when an Israeli missile struck, killing him and severely wounding several others. “The children were playing and they fired a missile directly on them,” Ahmed’s father, Sabri Al-Raqab, said, sobbing as he knelt on the floor of Nasser hospital with his arms across his son’s dead body in a final embrace. “He was carrying a watermelon. What was this child’s crime? He picked up a watermelon and they fired at him. Is he a fighter? He’s not a fighter. He’s a child.” The latest Israeli attacks on children came a day after a UN Commission of Inquiry released a report that concluded, “Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip.” The UN inquiry said that during the first two years of the Israeli assault, over 20,000 children were killed and more than 44,000 injured.  https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bombs-gaza-coastline-tents-beach-displaced-palestinians

• Washington Post: Nursing homes, factory owners and immigrants brace for fallout from Supreme Court ruling. The high court’s decision to strip Haitians and Syrians of their protections from deportation had immediate ripple effects for immigrants and their employers.
• Global Ocean Watch: Months of sustained pushback from global environmental activists and Indigenous communities have failed to halt a controversial US deep-sea mining advance. On May 29, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) quietly approved an exploration license for The Metals Company USA, authorizing seabed survey activities within the parcel of the South Pacific’s Clarion–Clipperton Zone. Critically, the targeted exploration area lies in international waters, outside US territorial jurisdiction and beyond the formal oversight of the International Seabed Authority, the UN body mandated to govern deep-sea resource activities on the global commons. The administrative approval represents a calculated geopolitical and economic maneuver by the Trump administration. By invoking “national security” and critical mineral supply chain resilience, Washington has empowered domestic private firms to stake unilateral operational claims in unregulated international maritime territories. The move enables corporations to extract valuable deep-sea mineral resources while bypassing unified global environmental governance and multilateral resource-sharing frameworks. This precedent-setting deep-sea mining signals a broader US strategy to expand privatized resource exploitation beyond Earth’s boundaries, including space and lunar resource initiatives led by SpaceX and Amazon-affiliated aerospace entities.

• A groundbreaking federal lawsuit has been filed against Palantir Technologies, its founder Peter Thiel, and CEO Alex Karp, alleging the company has crossed a constitutional Rubicon. The complaint accuses Palantir of deploying its powerful AI surveillance tools, normally used by the Pentagon, against the American public to monitor citizens, harvest biometric data, and censor speech. Plaintiffs claim the company is developing "synthetic intelligence" to predict human behavior, a pre-crime system that violates "cognitive liberty" by trespassing into the human mind. 

• North Korea refuses to respond to FIFA and broadcasts World Cup matches for free to its people. North Korean media reports: This is a global tournament, and you have no right to charge for watching it. It is worth noting that Pyongyang is broadcasting all World Cup matches live and free of charge, disregarding all other parties.

'Silent Friend': Official Trailer

Original title: Stille Freundin

In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands an ancient ginkgo tree. From 1908 to 2020, this tree has stood as a silent witness to limitless things, including how nature has profoundly impacted three human lives. 

Through this point-of-view, we see their stories – each one of them deeply rooted in their own present, as they are transformed by the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature. 

A fascinating exploration of how humans exist as part of a larger world of life on Earth.  

A Film by Ildikó Enyedi 

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