Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....
Europe is facing one of the most important strategic decisions in decades. As Brussels considers tougher trade measures against China, deep divisions are emerging inside the European Union itself.
Germany and Spain are warning against measures that could damage exports and investment, while France and other countries are pushing for stronger action against Chinese competition. Meanwhile, Beijing has issued a direct warning that any discriminatory restrictions will be met with retaliation.
In this GVS Deep Dive, we examine:
✔ Why the EU believes its trade relationship with China has become “unsustainable”
✔ China’s electric vehicle export boom and growing manufacturing dominance
✔ Germany’s record trade deficit with China
✔ Why BASF is investing €10 billion in China despite rising tensions
✔ The battle over telecom networks and Chinese technology
✔ How deteriorating US-EU relations are influencing Europe’s China policy
✔ Whether Europe can realistically reduce dependence on China
✔ Why Beijing sees an opportunity in Europe’s growing divisions
Is Europe preparing for economic confrontation with China, or discovering that its dependence on Chinese markets runs deeper than many policymakers expected?
Our appearance yesterday in district court in Alexandria, Virginia indicated how the Pentagon fears protests at the home of the newly declared 'Department of War'.
We began the morning at 8:00 am holding vigil in front of the courthouse that was set in a part of the city that looked like it belonged to the elite class. Not a blade of grass was out of place. The buildings were grand - whether the court, hotels or apartment blocks. No trash was anywhere to be seen, which is unusual in most urban centers across America these days.
I chose to take my banner that read 'Countdown to Insanity' and stood on a nearby corner where lots of traffic was busily heading to and fro. Several older women out walking stopped to ask me what was going on with the crowd of just over 50 people (24 of whom were those of us who had the court appearances for our March 27 Pentagon protest and arrests).
Three of our original group of 27 were earlier excused from appearing due to a stroke by Patrick O'Neill, who led our March 27 civil resistance action at the Pentagon. Patrick is now in the hospital near his home in North Carolina and it sadly appears he has a long road to recovery. His wife and one of his daughters had also been arrested and were excused by the government from appearing.
Just after 9:00 am we were called into the court and sat through an hour of traffic violation cases before the prosecutor informed the judge that the government was dropping the charges 'without prejudice'. This phrasing is confusing but it actually means that the government can at any time re-charge the 24 of us and haul us back into court. (It's really a threat, a scare tactic, to keep us from coming back.) But the judge, a rather uptight middle-aged man, made sure to tell us that it is not usually likely that this would happen.
We also were told that the two Pentagon 'police' in uniform standing in the back of the court were going to hand us a letter telling us we were banned from all Pentagon 'reservation' lands for an 'undetermined' time.
One of our leaders asked for a list of these so-called off-limits 'reservation lands'. We got no response. We were told we would be given this ban letter but did not have to sign it - but it would still be in force anyway. After things were all over we left the building and all of our 24 'now free' people refused to take the letter from the Pentagon police.
But before we left the court our dialogue with the judge carried on for more than 30 minutes. Essentially he told us that we were free to do as we wished but we'd suffer penalties if we continued to 'break the law'. If we wanted to really change things he suggested we go and vote. I yelled out from my seat in the courtroom 'Tell that to Thomas Massey in Kentucky' - the Republican Congressman who was just defeated for re-election by Trump and AIPAC. They spent $32 million against him because he had the temerity to repeatedly speak out against Trump's wars and his failure to release all the Epstein files.
It's more than obvious that the Pentagon did not want the 24 of us, from all over the country, to go on trial. They knew that we would attempt to put the war machine on trial for its many crimes.
One of my favorite moments was when one of the men in our group made a loud statement that we the taxpayers were not trespassing - it was the Pentagon that is now trespassing in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and ......
So much for democracy in the land of freedom and justice.
There is already talk amongst some in the Catholic Worker community about returning to the Pentagon again for another such action. I'll be sure to let folks know what comes of this.
We were proud to be part of the March 27 protest and despite the long trip from Maine it was an honor to stand with the other determined peacemakers as we demanded that the Pentagon stop its daily killing of people around the globe and toxifying lands which its more than 800 unwanted bases currently occupy.
While touring Africa soon before his assassination in 1965 Malcolm X was urging leaders throughout Africa to help black people in the US by reframing the struggle in the US as one being about Human Rights.
By doing this it would give black people in the US the access to take the issue to the United Nations.
Calling the struggle 'civil rights' limited their organizing avenue to the US Congress that was then heavily controlled by the southern racists.
Many believe this was one more key reason for the FBI to have killed Malcolm. He was turning the racism issue in the US into an international issue that people, particularly in Africa, could become more directly involved.
A data center twice the size of Manhattan just got approved in Utah — over 4,000 public objections. Candace Owens connects the dots between the sudden push for Trump's White House "ballroom," the surveillance state being built in plain sight, and Turning Point USA's increasingly strange ties to the military.
Mingo County, West Virginia, was once thriving, but the coal industry’s decline left it one of the poorest counties in the US. Now, multiple data centers could be built in the region.Are data centers a new extractive industry, or will they provide a much-needed economic lifeline?
This story was produced by More Perfect Union in partnership with 100 Days in Appalachia, an independent, non-profit digital news publication.
Peace Activists Arrested During Prayer Protest at Pentagon Appear in Court Thursday, June 4th
The activists are scheduled to appear at the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse, 401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, Virginia. An 8:00 am vigil in front of the courthouse will precede their court appearance.
On the morning of March 27, 2026, 27 activists, many of whom are members of the Catholic Worker Movement that shelters the homeless, processed to the Pentagon’s southeast entrance near the Metro stop.
The group, which calls itself the 'Pentagon 27', carried signs that read: “Love your enemies,” “Put up the sword. -Jesus,” “Catholic Workers say: Peace Now!,” “War is a sacrilege.- Pope Francis,” “Support Peace!,” "Countdown to insanity," and “Your wars will kill us all.”
They assembled on the right-hand side of the Pentagon entrance to protest, they said, the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran—a war His Holiness Pope Leo XIV declared unjust, immoral, in violation of international law, and against the Gospel. Standing or kneeling, they began to sing and pray for peace. All 27 were arrested without incident and charged with interfering with agency functions.
The Pentagon 27 will contend in court that their peaceful actions are protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act of 1993. They will also contend that nonviolent and prayerful means to promote peace are religious obligations for faithful Roman Catholics and other spiritual traditions.
POPE LEO XIV’S ENCOURAGEMENT TO ACTIVELY RESIST WAR.
In his recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV condemned the increasing pervasiveness of the military industrial complex in our society and the use of AI in war. “AI does not remove the intrinsic inhumanity of conflict; indeed it can only bring about conflict more quickly and render it more impersonal, lowering the threshold for resorting to violence, transforming defense into threat prediction and thus reducing victims to data,” the pontiff wrote.
Magnifica Humanitas ¶198.
Consequently, Pope Leo encouraged people of goodwill to continue actively resisting war and injustice: “Even in the darkest nights, the Lord raises up men and women who refuse to give up, who persevere in doing good, who protect the vulnerable and open pathways to reconciliation. The memory of the saints, righteous people and the oft forgotten peacemakers, show us that grace does not magically eliminate conflict, but instead it inspires active resistance to evil and an astonishing creativity in doing good.” Id. ¶211.
The Pentagon 27 did exactly this on March 27, as an expression of their faith.
Over six million people dead in Congo over the 30 year genocide.
It's the most valuable piece of land on this Earth.
The western imperial 'former powers' still can't let go of their dirty evil modus operandi. Thus they keep robbing and stealing and killing Africans and others around the globe that sit on vast resources. The US-NATO-EU-Israel-UAE are pirates.
BREAKING: Escalating attacks from Iran in response to ceasefire violations by the US.
The US reportedly attacked Qeshm Island with at least 3 projectiles, with at least one impact.
In response, Iran responded with multiple drones & missiles and attacked:
• Ali al Salem US Air Base, Kuwait
• Arifjan military US base, Kuwait
• US Navy 5th Fleet Base, Bahrain
• Targets within the UAE (sirens)
• Possibly sirens in Saudi Arabia (no visual confirmation)
• Separatist HQs in Erbil, Iraq
Statement issued by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps:
Late last night, the aggressive US military targeted an Iranian oil tanker in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz with an aerial missile, causing damage to the tanker's engine room.
In response to this aggression and violation of maritime regulations in the Strait of Hormuz, a US-Zionist enemy vessel named "Panaya" was targeted by missiles from the IRGC Navy.
In another act of aggression, the US enemy targeted an IRGC communications tower in southern Qeshm Island with aerial missiles. In response to this aggression, an airbase and helicopters belonging to them, located in a country in the region, as well as the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet, were targeted by missile and drone attacks carried out by the IRGC Aerospace Force.
We have previously warned that any aggression will be met with a different and more severe response, and we have already implemented this response. These responses should serve as a lesson to them.
We reiterate that any threat to the security of the Strait of Hormuz will come at a heavy price for the aggressor US military.
Tasnim News Agency reported: Following Israel’s escalation in Lebanon, Iran suspends all negotiations with the US. Iran has paused the exchange of messages with the US via mediators in protest against the Israeli crimes in Lebanon. Tasnim added that “Iranian officials and negotiators emphasized the immediate cessation of the aggressive and brutal operations by the occupation army in Gaza and Lebanon,” as well as “the necessity of Israel’s complete withdrawal from the occupied territories in Lebanon. There will be no talks unless Iran’s and the Resistance’s stances regarding a ceasefire on all fronts are met,” the agency added. In response, “the Resistance Front and Iran have enlisted in their agenda the complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the activation of other fronts, including the Bab al-Mandeb Strait,” Tasnim further reported.
Trump claimed that if reports about the suspension of negotiations between Iran and the US are true, "it's okay." He added: "I think we have talked too much. This does not mean that we go and start dropping bombs. We just remain silent. We maintain the blockade."
The Lebanese Embassy in Washington announced that Hezbollah has agreed to a US-backed proposal for a reciprocal cessation of attacks following contacts between President Joseph Aoun and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Under the proposal, Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs would cease in exchange for Hezbollah refraining from attacks against Israel, with the ceasefire framework later expanded to cover all Lebanese territories. The embassy added that Trump informed Lebanon’s ambassador in Washington that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approved the arrangement. Since when has Israel honored any ceasefire anywhere?
Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of Iran’s parliamentary National Security Committee: “If the attacks against Lebanon are not completely halted, dark days await the Zionist regime and American forces in the region. They themselves know full well that this is not a threat; our fingers are on the trigger.”
Sovereignista: Both serious wars [Ukraine and Palestine/Iran] are against the West and as a result of Western attacks because they want war and will agitate, propagandize, create pretexts and shoot children and nuclear power plants one way or the other, until they get it. They want a global war as they have nothing else left. They have burnt through their own collateral and now they want the collateral of the rest of the world, even if they have to burn it down first. Russia, China and Iran changed tactics and major war strategy on the same day. They realize that the current world shift cannot be done any longer via a process of evolutionary change, but only with revolutionary change. Revolutions as change agents are fickle instruments.
In Venezuela, the US has taken control of all incoming oil revenues. Fuel payments must now be transferred to the US treasury. Venezuela’s state oil company (PDVSA) in an official notice to its clients, including airlines and shipping companies, ordered that fuel payments be transferred not to the Venezuelan government’s accounts, but directly to the US Treasury. In essence, this decision transfers control over Venezuela’s energy revenues to the US government.
Belgium has revealed that 2 of their 3 MQ-9B SkyGuardians are being stationed on the island of Sicily. They say their mission there is primarily to address "irregular migration."
President Catherine Connolly of Ireland has openly described Israel as a “terror state,” intensifying diplomatic friction between Dublin and Jerusalem. Her remarks are some of Ireland’s most forceful condemnations of Israel during the ongoing Gaza war and reflect a growing change in political discourse across Europe, as governments and leaders continue to respond to the conflict. Connolly's sister was recently abducted and terrorized by Israel while on the flotilla to Gaza.
We will never seriously stop the US war machine until we create a national movement to convert the military industrial complex to building public mass transit systems, tidal power systems, solar power, wind turbines, rebuild crumbling roads, bridges, sewer and water systems, hospitals, rural health clinics and much more. All of these efforts would create good jobs across the country and help lead toward real peace.
July 4 parade in Bath, Maine (the largest parade in the state) some years ago. Bath builds destroyers for the navy.
Financial Times: The US is considering deploying nuclear-capable assets to additional NATO countries in Europe. While no agreement is expected soon, Poland and some Baltic states are reportedly interested in hosting bases for dual-capable aircraft that can carry nuclear weapons.
Sputnik: Russia's FSB has uncovered a foreign spy operation using malware implanted on the smartphones of high-ranking Russian officials. The goal? To extract data, eavesdrop on conversations, and covertly monitor the situation. Think of Fastly and Cloudflare. These aren't basement startups. They are the largest CDN (content delivery network) providers and "security perimeter" operators on the planet. They serve half of the Fortune 500, EU and Asian government websites — including, for example, the official site of the British government, major EU institutions, and critical financial infrastructure spanning the world’s democratic nations. In plain terms: they are the infrastructural spine of the internet. When you access a government service, a bank, or a news outlet in most of the Western world, your data almost certainly passes through their networks. The same digital spine that guards the West also feeds allies, neutral nations, and every global power. Break that trust — and the internet shatters. So, get ready for national clouds. Localized walls. Sovereign webs. Welcome to the fragmentation that the open internet promised would never happen.
DefenseNews reports: In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China’s nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out Beijing’s ability to hit back. China’s nuclear missiles can already reach any city in the US. Now, satellite images reviewed by Reuters show Beijing is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military’s longest-range missiles. The scale of the construction, which hasn’t been previously reported, points to a sweeping expansion of hardened infrastructure designed to protect and operate China’s land-based nuclear forces. Taken together, the network signals a significant upgrade in Beijing’s efforts to ensure second-strike capability, underscoring intensifying nuclear competition with the US as tensions rise over issues such as Taiwan’s sovereignty.
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action reports: The Columbia-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) are the planned replacement submarines for the Ohio-class SSBN submarines that first arrived at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in 1982. The twelve proposed Columbia-class submarines are expected to cost $126.4 billion according to the Navy’s FY 2025 budget submission. Six of the new submarines are expected to be deployed at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, approximately 20 miles from Seattle in the state of Washington. Each Columbia-class SSBN has an expected life span of 42 years, and the first submarine is expected to arrive at Bangor in 2032. The new Columbia-class SSBN will carry 16 Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles. The estimated total cost for the lifespan of the Columbia-class program is approximately $348 billion. How much longer can a nation with $38 trillion in debt afford to keep building these nukes?
The ruling Democratic Party of South Korea (DPK) openly criticized Gen. Xavier T. Brunson, commander of US Forces Korea, with its spokesperson Rep. Boo Seung-chan saying in a written briefing that the USFK commander’s comments “arbitrarily defined Korea’s strategic status, infringed upon the sovereignty of its people and even fueled diplomatic tensions. The situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia should be addressed through the language of diplomacy, not military metaphors. Such remarks risk creating unnecessary misunderstandings and tensions, which is deeply concerning,” Boo said. Concerns arose after Brunson’s podcast interview hosted by the US Army War College on May 22. "When they [the Chinese] look out from the east coast of China, what they see is there's Korea, the dagger in the heart of Asia," Brunson said. He added that Japan serves as "a shield" and a defensive barrier against China's ambitions beyond the South China Sea.
Quincy Institute: The US and Israel are now approaching the renegotiation of their 10-year defense Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU. Israeli officials have said they want to phase out US military grant aid — a position that sounds like a step toward ending US military assistance to Israel. It is not. What top Israeli officials — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — are quietly backing is not a reduction in American support, but a reorganization of it: shifting billions in resources from State Department–administered foreign aid grants into general Pentagon procurement accounts, industrial partnerships, and sustainment pipelines. The shift will strip away the political and diplomatic oversight mechanisms that make the relationship publicly accountable, moving it from a visible annual aid vote into the opaque machinery of defense acquisition, where oversight is limited and political accountability is minimal. The result would be a defense relationship that is simultaneously deeper and less transparent.
RT: Professor Marandi stated: 'The Western media has a full presence in Beirut, yet they try to justify the slaughter of civilians by calling these Hezbollah targets.' (Seyed Mohammed Marandi, political analyst, Tehran University professor.)
Elon Musk wants a SpaceX IPO valuing the company at upwards of $1.75 trillion. To get there, he got the rules changed so that index funds, with millions of Americans' retirement savings, are forced to buy in. Retirees could take huge losses, while insiders cash out.
Released by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year running to September next year showed revised language related to maintaining 28,500 US troops in South Korea. In the section on the oversight of Pentagon military posture on the Korean Peninsula, this year's version says that amounts authorized to be appropriated by the act may not be expended to 'reduce the number of troops' in South Korea below 28,500.
A war “you didn’t vote for” and a supply chain that snaps at Hormuz. Col. Douglas Macgregor ties fuel, fertilizer, food prices, and foreign influence into one blunt thesis.
Gas up. Grocery bill up. Then ask the question nobody in Washington wants on camera: “Who is governing this country and for whom?”
He also calls out those who continue hiding the Epstein Files from full public review. This issue refuses to go away.
He concludes by saying 'truth needs a platform'. It's time for real patriots to stand up.
JFK, just before being assassinated, was challenging Israel's efforts to build the nuclear bomb at the Dimona nuclear facility.
Israel was telling JFK that it was just a nuclear power facility and when Kennedy sent inspectors to tour the operation, Israel created a false installation in order to hide the truth that they were indeed building nuclear weapons.
To this very day Israel does not acknowledge they have nukes.
In addition JFK was attempting to force Israel to register the American Zionist Council (the forerunner of AIPAC) as a foreign agent.
JFK was killed before he could get this task completed.
When Vice-President Lyndon Johnson took over the presidency after the JFK assassination he dropped both these initiatives which to this day have gone unmet.
The US government is desperate to create a new supply chain that cuts out China, through its Pax Silica initiative.
To do so, the Trump administration plans to colonize the territory of the Philippines, a supposed "ally" run by corrupt leader Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, with a 99-year colonial concession.
Netanyahu the scum bag on more genocide coming: 'I have instructed the IDF to expand its operations in Lebanon. Our forces have overcome formidable obstacles, captured strategic positions, and seized the Beaufort Heights. Now, my instructions are to deepen and expand our control over the areas that were under Hezbollah's control. We are beginning operations, and we are operating on all fronts—in Syria, in Gaza, and in Lebanon. It will take time, but we will accomplish the mission.'
Continuous violent airstrikes have been carried out by Israeli warplanes on Tyre city, southern Lebanon, throughout recent days. Israel is pushing a 'Gaza solution' for Lebanon. Continuous bombing and massive refugee crisis. This one a major reason Trump keeps doing his hot & cold act about any real negotiations with Iran. Washington is giving the Zionists time and space to keep killing in Lebanon. It's genocidal to a people and their unique culture.
Channel 14 Hebrew: The Israeli army is expected to issue evacuation orders in the southern suburbs of Beirut soon.
What really is happening in Wiesbaden, Germany? Former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi described the German Wiesbaden center as a “secret weapon” for planning and executing operations against Russia. American and Ukrainian officers work side by side every day in a joint command and intelligence fusion center. They analyze satellite imagery, intercepted Russian communications, and battlefield intelligence to identify Russian positions, weapons systems, and high-value targets. Those target lists are then turned into exact strike coordinates and handed to Ukraine for attacks using HIMARS, ATACMS, Storm Shadow missiles, and long-range drones. This also includes targets inside Russian territory and Crimea after Washington gradually loosened restrictions. This is not “indirect support” anymore. This is deep operational involvement. How is Russia expected to respond? And when they do listen for the howls from western media outlets.
Japan will send four Self-Defense Forces officers to NATO’s command in Wiesbaden for the first time. The officers will help coordinate military aid deliveries and training programs for Ukraine’s Armed Forces, but will not take part in combat, which Japan’s constitution supposedly forbids. There is literally an entire unified NATO headquarters setup to use the vast resources of the military alliance (and its allies like Japan) directed entirely against Russia. One can see the hallmarks of a coordinated information campaign which artfully uses exaggerated accounts of Ukraine’s recent deep strike campaign as a kind of fulcrum for spinning the narrative that Russia is beginning to “slip”.
The IRGC announced it shot down a MQ-1 drone early yesterday morning. The MQ-1 drone attempted to carry out a hostile operation by entering the territorial waters of Iran, but it was immediately detected and shot down by Iran’s air defenses. The US retired its MQ-1 fleet in 2018, so the only operator in the region would be the UAE.
No community is better off with an AI data center. And no life or death decisions are better off in the hands of an AI system. Yet, despite its associated environmental impact and unpredictable behavior, Pete Hegseth intends to turn our military into an “AI-first fighting force.” To make this happen, the Army and Air Force will need to use thousands of acres of military land across Texas, North Carolina, California, Arizona and Georgia for polluting data centers.
This past year, the US approved the Pax Silica Initiative to pillage 4,000 acres in Central Luzon in Philippines dedicated to mining precious metals. The US State Department frames this as "part of a broader strategy to surge production for inputs vital to US supply chains." [The 'supply chain' is actually the Pentagon's growing need to control vital precious metals for military hardware.] Yet, we know that Filipino people in these areas will have their livelihoods stripped away as the Philippine government does nothing to address the root causes of poverty, land grabbing, and militarization, and they instead continue to sell out the Filipino people to the US all in the name of profit.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Ragi: 'We have received a request from France to hold an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council due to the Israeli escalation.' What is Macron going to do? Why won't he criticize Israel and stop beating up Palestine solidarity protesters in his own nation?
IRGC Navy says 28 vessels, including oil tankers, container ships, and other commercial ships, have safely transited the Strait of Hormuz under coordination and security provided by IRGC naval forces in the past 36 hours.
TASS reports: Zelensky plans to dismiss Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrsky, and appoint the terrorist Kirill Budanov, as his replacement. “In a private meeting, Zelensky announced his intention to appoint Budanov as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and to reinstate Denis Shmyhal, Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy, as prime minister. These personnel reshuffles will be made closer to the congressional elections,” the source said. Zelensky rearranges deck chairs on the Titanic and the people in Kiev are hiding underground. The people know Zelensky has lost. Why else would Zelensky be grabbing men of all ages off the streets (many from Odessa lately which is a Russian-ethnic city) to send to the front lines?
Just Foreign Policy writes: Right now, as we head into a critical House vote on Rep. Rashida Tlaib's Lebanon War Powers Resolution, an AIPAC offshoot called DMFI is running Facebook ads to kill it. Their argument is that voting to stop the killing "jeopardizes a meaningful Lebanon-Israel ceasefire."
Israel killed 31 people in Lebanon on one day last week. Six of them were children. Fourteen died in a single airstrike on the town of Borj El Chmali. Two days later, jets struck south of Beirut for the first time in three weeks… killing a woman and two more children. That is the "ceasefire" DMFI is running ads to protect. In effect, this is an ad trying to convince your members of Congress that they should let the killing go on in your name – but they’re not even brave enough to admit it. This is the military industrial complex meddling in our democracy – openly, expensively, without shame. They don't just lobby Congress behind closed doors. They run ads. They flood Facebook. They spend whatever it takes to make sure a vote that might actually pass can be blocked from the floor.
The Vienna Festival cancelled a scheduled appearance of US-German tech mogul Peter Thiel after facing mounting criticism from its sponsors and a mass exodus of other participants. The co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, widely known for his controversial right-wing and 'transhumanist' views, was expected to participate in a discussion titled ‘Armageddon and the Antichrist? From Theology to Realpolitik.’ This year, the Festival declared itself the 'Republic of Gods,' advertising itself as a “space of radical criticism and new beginnings.” The scheduled panel immediately drew controversy, with some seeing it as an opportunity to debate Thiel’s controversial ideas, while others argued the entrepreneur’s apocalyptic worldview should not receive a platform at all. “The invitation to Peter Thiel is quite rightly causing great discontent among the public,” Vienna’s City Councillor for Culture, Veronica Kaup-Hasler, told Der Standard newspaper.
An explosion occurred at Hanwha Aerospace, a South Korean military industry giant, in Daejeon, where missiles and ammunition are produced, resulting in five deaths and other injuries. Hanwha is currently involved in militarizing Jeju Island as a space manufacturing and launch site.
Trump's Epic Fury was the first peer nation to peer nation use of space for war on earth, and perhaps across space. Russia/China shared space recon and targeting info to Iran. Iran and allies used it to target against US/Israel/Gulf bases and aircrafts. The US Space Command and Space Force are going ballistic over it all, especially China’s role in it. The Pentagon is upset because they long ago claimed they would be the 'Master of Space' and are now being exposed.
A British drone manufacturer Helsing ran a war game that concluded the only way for Europe to survive a Russian invasion is — you guessed it — for NATO to buy tens of thousands of that very drone manufacturer’s massively price-inflated drones. Beware UK of gifts from warmongers.
The completely nuts Ukrainian Nazis deliberately attacked the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant power unit again. A Ukrainian drone exploded in the turbine hall of the 6th power unit of the power plant. A hole was formed in the wall. The UAV was controlled via fiber optics - this completely rules out an accidental hit. Rosatom Chief Alexey Likhachev asks, "What to expect next? Strikes directly on the turbine? The reactor hall? The reactor and safety systems? Today we’re one step closer to an incident that will, with high probability, harm even those who live far beyond borders of Russia and Ukraine and still think they’re completely safe," he said.
𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆, an estimated 24,000 to 25,000 people die every day from 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 and hunger-related causes. Millions of 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 are especially vulnerable, and conflicts around the world continue to make 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 even worse for countless families. At the same time, the world spends nearly $2.9 trillion every year on military 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀, including weapons, aircraft, warships, and technology. 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 these two realities side by side raises an important question: imagine how much progress humanity could make if those resources were directed toward ending 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿, improving healthcare, and supporting education worldwide. This is a time for greater cooperation, compassion, and a renewed commitment to peace. 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 has achieved incredible advances in science and 𝗰𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, and protecting that progress requires choosing dialogue over destruction and investing more in 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 life and dignity.
The US did not issue a visa to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia to participate in a meeting of the UN Security Council. This concerns Alexander Alimov, as reported by Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya. He accused Washington of violating obligations under the agreement on the central UN institutions, which stipulates ensuring access to the headquarters for all official representatives of member states. Moreover, Moscow considers this decision a gesture of disrespect towards China’s presidency in the UN Security Council, as Alimov was supposed to participate in the meeting at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. This decision has not yet been commented on in Washington. It's time to move the UN out of the US.
An Israeli-born U.S. attorney, who's called for Gaza to be wiped off the map, has dropped charges against an Israeli linked to a suspicious bio lab in Nevada.
Prem Thakker explains how the Trump-appointed attorney is protecting the Israeli from the U.S. legal system.
In this episode of 51/49, James breaks down the clash between Representative Thomas Massie and the new hosts, Andrew Kolvet and Blake Neff, behind the Charlie Kirk Show, that inadvertently blew the lid off the network's ties to foreign interests.
