Israel moving to control Al-Aqsa Mosque

• Fars News Agency: Trump is misrepresenting the Iran deal terms. He claimed Iran agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz for free and dismantle its nuclear materials — neither is in the actual text. The US must immediately unblock $12 billion in Iranian assets before talks can proceed, and a full ceasefire in Lebanon (on Hezbollah's terms) is also required. The deal is still awaiting final approval in Iran. Informed sources describe Trump's statements as a mix of truth and fabrication — an attempt to claim a premature victory. Trump cannot tell us what we ‘must’ do, we decide it by ourselves. Trump is on his own planet and talking to himself again.

• Washington Post: Trump’s approval plunges among his white working-class base. In a striking shift, white voters without college degrees who voted to reelect Trump by a huge margin are now net-negative on his job approval.
• Bloomberg: Five US military personnel were injured in Iran's retaliatory attack on a US base in Kuwait. The IRGC launched a retaliatory strike on the base from which Iran was shelled on the night of May 28. US military personnel were injured, and two MQ-9 Reaper attack drones were seriously damaged, each costing around $30 million.  Ali Al Salem, located in the Jahra Governorate of Kuwait, mainly hosts the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing of the United States Air Force.

• Portside reports: The origins of this current malaise in the US date back to the mid-1970s, and followed the actions taken by business class elites responding to the exhortations contained in the now-famous Powell Memorandum. This was a secret 1971 memo from then-corporate lawyer Lewis Powell to the Secretary of the US Chamber of Commerce. The memo wasn’t revealed to the public until well after Powell had been appointed to the Supreme Court, where he continued to wage his ideological battle in defense of capitalism and corporate power. In the memo Powell argued that: 'The US Chamber of Commerce should lead an assault upon the major institutions, universities, schools, the media, publishing, the courts, in order to change how individuals think about the corporation, the law, culture, and the individual.'
• The Pentagon has spent months positioning warships and weapons in place for an attack on Cuba and is ready to go if President Trump gives the order, POLITICO reported on Wednesday. The report noted that the US doesn’t have quite the number of warships it had deployed in the Caribbean before the attack on Venezuela, but the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its strike group just recently arrived in the region, and the US can also make use of fighter jets and other weapons based in Florida for a war with Cuba. The US has also ramped up military surveillance flights around Cuba, something it did in the months leading up to the attack on Venezuela.
• Bolivia stands up: 'We will not dialogue or negotiate with those who have the blood of our indigenous communities on their hands; we will resist in the barricades until President Rodrigo Paz resigns.' Indigenous leaders from Bolivia vow to fight until they topple the regime of Rodrigo Paz, a US puppet who seeks to privatize the country and hand over precious resources like lithium to the Yankee empire. This is what the dignity of native peoples looks like as they fight against those who destroy and sell their land. 

• Blue Origin rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad, in major setback for space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The Blue Origin rocket exploded on the pad during an engine 'hotfire test' on May 28 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Blue Origin officials posted a statement: "We experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test. Debris from the anomaly could wash ashore...over the coming days or weeks." The rocket had been slated to potentially launch as early as June 4. Rockets sometimes blow up on the launch pad or soon after take off. Imagine the danger when these rockets will be outfitted with nuclear devices in the near future as missions to the Moon and Mars are planned to carry nuclear reactors to those planetary bodies. 

• Hungary will not send weapons and military equipment to Ukraine. Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar stated this at a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
• Professor Jeffrey Sachs: 'I published in the Berliner Zeitung an open letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Germany has the key responsibility right now for preventing a European-wide war. Germany incidentally promised the Soviet Union and Russia in 1990 that NATO would not enlarge. Germany cheated on its promise.' 

• The US Space Force must plan to deploy troops on orbiting space stations and at bases on the moon [at the Earth-Moon Gravity Well] to prevent China from winning the new space race and controlling outer space, according to a policy paper circulated recently by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. National Security Correspondent Bill Gertz writes in his weekly Inside the Ring column that the paper by retired Space Force Col. Kyle Pumroy warns that a sustained human military presence in space is needed to counter China’s growing space efforts that are run by the People’s Liberation Army, including plans for a moon base by 2030. 

• Confirmed: Yemen shot down another MQ-9 drone, this morning. 

• Muslims have been praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque for around 1,400 years. Israel has had its eyes on the holy site since the state’s creation in 1948, and its leaders have made increasingly aggressive attempts to seize control. In theory and by law, the custodian of Al-Aqsa Mosque is King Abdullah II of Jordan.  The US and Israel are conspiring to strip the Jordanian royal family of its historic custodianship. A US official has denied the report, but under the plan described to Middle East Eye by American, Jordanian and Palestinian officials, Israel would gain control over the appointment of imams and senior mosque officials. The plan, reportedly being pushed by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and zionist US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, would also give Israel a role in approving the content of Friday sermons.

• Footage circulating online shows Dutch police smashing a pregnant Palestinian woman into the ground, while posing no threat at all, in the Netherlands. What did she do to deserve this brutality?

• The President of Romania stated that a drone crashed in the country following an intervention by Ukrainian air defence. Romanian President Nicușor Dan visited Galați, the site where the drone crashed, and stated that the drone ended up on Romanian territory after being hit by Ukrainian air defenses near Reni. According to him, the group consisted of 43 drones, some of which were shot down over Ukrainian territory. One of the drones was likely hit over Reni, after which it changed course and crashed on Romanian territory. Of course NATO blamed Russia. 
• Pro-Palestine candidates were more likely to win their seat than candidates from any major party besides Reform at the recent local elections in England. New data shared with Middle East Eye indicates that opposition to British cooperation with Israel remains a key political issue and is a predictor for electoral success in many areas in England. At the May 7 local elections, candidates who signed the 'Pledge for Palestine', created by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, won 27 percent of the seats they contested, while Reform candidates won 30 percent. Labour candidates trailed behind on 22 percent, with the Lib Dems just one point behind on 21.

• The US is deliberately causing hunger in Cuba as part of its economic strangulation of the island, City University of New York professor Danny Shaw has said in an interview with RT. Shaw, an ethnography scholar, discussed his recent visit to Cuba and argued that the US is the main cause of the instability. “US foreign policy for 67 years now has done everything to disrupt the Cuban economy, any sense of social and economic harmony,” Shaw said. “The State Department, all these different agencies, the CIA, they know exactly how many calories Cubans have access to, and every day it’s less,” he added. Sanchez, who was born in Cuba and raised in Miami, said the issue was personal to him. He also rejected claims by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Cuba’s worsening economic crisis is primarily the fault of its own government, arguing instead that “the US has destroyed Cuba [by its economic blockade], not incompetent communists.”
• The Kremlin has published a joint statement by the leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) regarding Armenia’s plans to join the EU. The leaders of Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan believe that a nationwide referendum should be held in Armenia on whether to join the EU or remain in the EAEU.  This is all part of NATO-EU encirclement of Russia.

Reviewing the takedown of Thomas Massie with Joe Kent

In this episode of 51/49, James sits down for an exclusive interview with former Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent to expose the record-breaking $30 million onslaught targeting Representative Thomas Massie.

They reveal how powerful foreign lobbies and institutional forces are actively trying to execute a political hit on a lawmaker for opposing a war with Iran and fighting to release the Epstein files.  

the funnies

U.S.-Israel war on Iran costing Nebraska farmers big time

Drop Site's Capitol Hill correspondent Julian Andreone traveled to Nebraska to speak with corn and soybean farmers about how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is hitting their operations — and why they say every American will feel it.  

Google Boss booed at Univ of Arizona graduation over AI promo

U.S. fires shots again at Iran

• A new and symbolic mural design unveiled at Palestine Square in Tehran. The mural features a Rorschach-inspired design symbolizing the downfall of the zionist regime. The design came following a message from the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei, regarding the eventual collapse of the zionist entity. 
• Iranian military: 'The terrorist US military in the region violated the ceasefire by firing several missiles at empty areas of Bandar Abbas Airport, which caused no damage. In response to this aggression, the US airbase in Kuwait from which the attack originated was struck in retaliation. If this action by the terrorist US military is repeated, it will face our harsh response.'
• Deputy Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Bagheri: 'Our region would be the most stable region in the world without the US. The success of negotiations depends on ending the United States’ policy of arrogance and imposing conditions. The current problem in the region is US interference and the presence and influence of zionists. The recent war showed that the Strait of Hormuz created a route for threatening the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Under such circumstances, Iran, as an independent sovereign state, has the right to protect its security and national sovereignty and not allow them to be violated or threatened. From the American perspective, peace is linked to securing their illegitimate interests. The US attack on a school in Minab showed that America’s claims about human rights are completely false, and that they place no value whatsoever on human beings and their rights.'

• Doron Kadosh, Israeli army correspondent: 'The escalation in Beirut is based on an American request; it is important to remember.'
• Trump openly threatened Oman: 'The Strait of Hormoz will be open to everyone and no one will control it. Oman will behave like everyone else, otherwise we will have to blow them up.'  Oman is now working directly with Iran to control Hormoz which borders their shores .
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US would continue tightening what he called a “financial stranglehold” on Iran. “Through Economic Fury, the US has imposed a financial stranglehold on the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” Bessent said. The press release also warned against payments or cooperation connected to passage through the Strait, including tolls, digital assets, swaps or other in-kind arrangements. The move comes as the US fails to subjugate Iran with unhinged threats, outright military aggression and ceasefire violations. Nonetheless, the US continues expanding its sanctions campaign while claiming to negotiate with Iran.

• According to an informed source close to the negotiation team: Iran's frozen assets that must be released during the negotiations are estimated at $24 billion. Iran insists that half of it should be released upfront with the start of the memorandum announcement and the rest transferred within 60 days.
• Informed sources for Fars News say that Trump may unilaterally announce within the next few hours that the Iran-US agreement has been finalized. If he does, this is seen as an attempt to apply pressure and impose the agreement on public opinion before all differences are fully resolved.

Covering all the bases at our weekly vigil in Brunswick, Maine today

• The United States has reimposed sanctions on the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese for revealing the Israeli regime’s genocide in the Gaza Strip.

• Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev called for a change in European policy regarding the conflict in Ukraine. "Personally, I am concerned that Europe is striving to achieve victory over the largest nuclear power, having the ability to intercept and counter modern hypersonic weapons. This is a serious risk. It is necessary to change the general policy", stated Radev. The Bulgarian Prime Minister also stated that he supports negotiations between EU countries and Moscow.
• Latvia is installing 'dragon teeth' on the border with Russia and digging anti-tank ditches. They are designed to prevent the movement of military equipment across the border. Construction of the fortifications is planned to be completed by 2028. The total length of Latvia's border with Russia and Belarus is about 450 kilometers. This year, only 8 km are planned to be fortified. Why is Latvia worried about an invasion by Russia? Could it be that since Latvia joined NATO they are part of a planned European war against Russia in the coming years?  

• European Commissioner for Integration Marta Kos stated that Zelensky's demand for “Ukraine to join the EU next year is unfeasible," Financial Times reports. European leaders have repeatedly pointed out the inconsistency of Ukrainian legislation with European standards and stated that one of the mandatory conditions for considering Ukraine's membership is thorough reform.

• Zelensky's patriotic recruitment continues on a daily basis. This eager recruit in Odessa willingly joins the ranks for the frontline defense of the mafia regime in Kiev. Good luck brother....  

• Report by CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh was released four days after the tragedy in Starobelsk, Russia but it had been prepared in advance. The implications cannot be more serious. Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova’s complete statement: "As you know, CNN did not travel to Starobelsk last Sunday, citing logistical reasons. Yesterday CNN revealed what they were actually working on while correspondents from around the world were documenting the aftermath of the devastating terrorist attack on the dormitory and teaching block of a pedagogical college in the Lugansk People's Republic. CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, who has been indicted in absentia in Russia for participating in the Kursk incursion, was filming a promotional segment about Kiev’s drone strikes on Russian cities. The piece was prepared slightly in advance but aired on May 26, four days after the Starobelsk strike that killed more than twenty people. Neither the anchors nor Walsh mentioned it with a single word. Instead the segment ran as a full advertisement for the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones: 'We are now next to perhaps the most wanted target in Russia, a Ukrainian long-range drone strike unit. Tonight they will launch 200 drones at Russia. These drones have already struck Stavropol.' That passing detail about Stavropol is significant. It suggests Walsh may have been embedded with the Ukrainian unit at the exact moment it was coordinating the planned strike on the college in Starobelsk. Kiev’s drones hit Stavropol the day before the Starobelsk attack. The Armed Forces Ukraine hired CNN to film their drone killers at work. When Russia invites CNN to document the aftermath of Ukrainian drone strikes, the killing of civilians including children and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, American journalists cite vacations, logistics and so on. Meanwhile there is a strong likelihood that CNN correspondents were filming the preparation for that very attack. Their audience, the channel has decided, should not know about the consequences. This is not journalism. CNN has different priorities now: propaganda, distortion, manipulation, not informing its audience. This is exactly how the Völkischer Beobachter [daily newspaper published by the Nazi Party] operated in 1944. Its editorial policy was coordinated with the propaganda apparatus, its staff saluted and celebrated the achievements of German arms, and until 1945 reported on the imminent victory of the Reich over the USSR and the Allies. Anything that did not fit the narrative simply did not exist. After the collapse of the Hitler regime, the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced the editor of the Völkischer Beobachter to spend the rest of his life in labor camps. This is how the Western mainstream manufactures a deliberately distorted picture of the world today.” 

• Netanyahu: 'We are now in 60% of the Gaza Strip, more or less. We were at 50%; now we’ve moved to 60%. My directive is to move to'... Audience: 100! 100!... Netanyahu: 'Wait, let’s go in order. First 70%. Let’s start with that.'

• Washington Post: Trump’s approval plunges among his white working-class base. In a striking shift, white voters without college degrees who voted to reelect Trump by a huge margin are now net-negative on his job approval. Could it be that these folks are realizing their 'prez' has done virtually nothing for them while he has made sure the top 1% are getting all the economic breaks?  

Can't vote our way out of this one

In this episode James exposes how a powerful foreign lobby and massive pro-Israel dark money executed a record-breaking $35 million primary ouster against Representative Thomas Massie for opposing the war in Iran.

He tours the National Mall to reveal how Washington’s iconic monuments and textbook histories are actually sophisticated propaganda designed to manufacture public consent and protect the establishment from the American voter.

Excellent timely film: 'Saving Walden's World'

Jim Merkel's remarkably timely film called 'Saving Walden's World' about his fascinating life, family, worldwide travels and work is a should see by anyone who promotes peace, sustainability, and has children/grandchildren.  

I was very moved by Jim's own conversion story from working for the war machine to then traveling to India, Cuba and Slovenia to find and share the stories of remarkable women who are working to change the world for the better by empowering local women to do sustainable agriculture, education and political action. 

Particularly timely was the Cuba segment as we see Trump today threatening to invade Cuba in order to restore the US mafia system that was thrown out by the people's revolution in 1959. Despite the horrific blockade by the US for so many years, Jim featured Cuban people who are finding ways to keep the dream of independence and sovereignty alive.

Please find a way to help more people see this important film. 

Find more info at www.savingwaldensworld.org

Bruce

Normalizing genocide: A danger to peace & sovereignty around the world

• Lebanon to the world: We apologize for the harshness of the words, but the reality in the south is harsher than any description. The world is watching and the silence of the world is killing us! Every day the hand of the Israeli enemy extends to directly and deliberately target the messengers of humanity and the medics of the Islamic Risala Scouts in Srifa, Tir Felsiyeh, and Qaraoun Dam. The only guilt of these heroes is that they refused to abandon our children, and they devoted themselves to protecting what remains of the fragments of childhood and life in the south. Israel is slaughtering our children and assassinating the medics who bandage their wounds, and no one is moving a finger. Mass genocide is being normalized around the world by the imperial agents of doom.

• A total of around 190 airstrikes were recorded in Lebanon during the past 36 hours. The Lebanese Ministry of Health stated that 31 people were martyred and 40 wounded, including children and women, as a result of the series of Israeli attacks yesterday.
• NetBlocks says more than 80% of internet connectivity has been restored in Iran as mobile networks and other  services reconnect to the global internet.
• John Mearsheimer: “On 24 May 2026, I was on ‘Switzerland’ talking with Tom Switzer about the high-profile negotiations between President Trump and Iran that were taking place that day. Exactly where those negotiations will lead is difficult to tell. Trump initially signaled that the two sides were very close to a deal, but then qualified his language later in the day. It appeared from what we were hearing about the specifics of the deal — certainly at the start of the public conversation — that the US was effectively conceding defeat to Iran, which is not to deny that Iran would have to make some concessions, especially on the nuclear issue. Unsurprisingly, Israel, the lobby, and the war hawks here in the US were apoplectic about the terms of the deal, which is surely what caused Trump to temper his rhetoric over the course of the day.”

• The Israeli Knesset has taken an important step toward annexing Palestinian archaeological and historical sites in the occupied West Bank, Mondoweiss reported. The Knesset advanced a bill that would place the sites under direct Israeli civil authority and effectively legally annex them to Israel. The Antiquities Law was originally introduced in 2023 and passed its first Knesset reading by a vote of 23 to 14. It is now due to go up for its second and third readings in the Israeli parliamentary body before being passed into law. If successful, the bill would move the control of the occupied Palestinian antiquities from the army’s Civil Administration to a civilian agency in the Israeli government, “a clear act of legal annexation in contravention of international law,” Mondoweiss notes.

• A State Department cable says the US does not want Riyad Mansour to have a ‘pulpit’ to highlight Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza at the UN. Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour is withdrawing as a candidate for vice president of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) following pressure from Washington, NPR reported. Earlier this week, the US threatened to revoke Palestinian diplomats’ visas if Mansour did not withdraw his bid. “We will hold the PA responsible if the Palestinian delegation does not withdraw its VPGA candidacy,” a State Department cable issued  and obtained by NPR said. The cable said the Palestinian envoy to the UN “has a history of accusing Israel of genocide.” NPR noted that the threat is considered unprecedented, particularly given the 1947 UN Headquarters Agreement, which generally bars the US from blocking UN officials from entering New York. 
• The Chosun Ilbo: A US led war game against China took place on South Korean soil during the 2025 Ulchi Freedom Shield and the 2026 Freedom Shield US–ROK joint military exercises. Reportedly, approximately 2,000 Army personnel from the US Army’s 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force, a brigade-sized formation, participated in the exercises to “neutralize China’s Anti-Access/Area Denial capabilities across multiple operational domains — air, land, sea, space, cyberspace, and information warfare — throughout the Indo-Pacific theater.”  

• Der Spiegel: The US plans to reduce its military contribution to NATO and shift a significant portion of Europe’s defense burden onto its European allies. Washington's deep state plans to reduce its fighter jet contribution by about a third and significantly decrease the number of strategic bombers within the Alliance. Washington no longer wants to provide submarines to NATO, and it also plans to cut back on its contribution of destroyers and drones. Why? US can't afford to do it anymore when it is $38 trillion in debt and nations are dropping their US Treasury bonds like hot cakes. At the same time Pentagon weapons systems are proving to be ineffective and thus a crisis is developing as massive funds are being wasted (Trump has requested $1.5 trillion for 2026) on poor quality weapons. In addition the world increasingly is calling for the US to close its 800 bases in foreign nations. The bases make the host nation a target and are loaded with a toxic stew from years of military pollution.

• Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on recently resigned US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announcing an audit of more than 120 foreign biological facilities. Zakharova claimed that over 40 US-linked biolaboratories are operated in Ukraine and said Russia had previously raised the issue at the UN and under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. The briefing also referenced investigations conducted during Russia’s special military operation and renewed calls for international scrutiny of US military-biological activities abroad.

• The Board of Peace’s official fund remains empty, and the organization is in a political and legal deadlock, the Financial Times reported. Despite $17 billion in financial commitments pledged by international backers and Washington, no funds have been transferred to the organization’s accounts in the four months since its establishment.
• In a February 1901 article titled, 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness,' Mark Twain continued to criticize the US. "There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land...True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world...And as for a flag for the Philippine Province, it is easily managed. We can have a special one - our States do it: we can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones."  

• Femena reports: More than two months into the ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon, women across affected areas describe a life shaped by constant fear, repeated displacement, exhaustion, and uncertainty. What began as emergency survival under bombardment has evolved into a prolonged humanitarian and psychological crisis affecting nearly every aspect of daily life. Across southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa, and other affected regions, civilians continue to endure Israeli airstrikes, shelling, and constant drone surveillance under increasingly unstable and dangerous conditions. Although international actors have repeatedly called for de-escalation, and a tentative ceasefire framework was announced in April 2026, military operations and attacks continue, leaving many communities trapped between repeated displacement, destruction, and the ongoing fear of renewed violence. At the same time, women across Lebanon continue to carry the burden of sustaining families and communities under extraordinary pressure. Women human rights defenders, activists, journalists, healthcare workers, volunteers, and community organizers remain at the forefront of documenting violations, coordinating relief efforts, supporting displaced families, and preserving community networks, despite enduring the same violence and insecurity themselves.  

• Gazeta Wyborcza: Poland and Britain will soon sign a defense agreement against Russia. In May 2025, Warsaw signed a similar agreement with France, and in June such a document will be signed with Germany. Thus, Poland, Britain, Germany, and France are working on creating a "NATO within NATO," which will be directed against Russia.
• Former senior adviser to the US Defense Secretary Col. Douglas Macgregor says trying to follow Trump’s Iran policy is enough to cause “an acute case of schizophrenia.” “What this man does brilliantly, let’s give him credit is manipulate the markets,” Macgregor stressed. Meanwhile, the bill is coming due. Macgregor warned that the Iran war is driving inflation higher, oil markets are being artificially managed, and the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve could be drained in about 60 days. “We’re going to watch the global economy shrink by an estimated 36%. Just for referential purposes, the Great Depression reduced the world economy by 20%.”
• Nazi occupied Kiev. This ‘Ukrainian patriot’ was mobilized in a totally ‘free and democratic’ manner. Men of all ages are just dying to go to the front lines and fight for the corrupt Zelensky mafia crew. They know if they are lucky they will last at least a week. 

• Half of young people aged 16-29 would never fight for Britain if war broke out, a new opinion  poll has revealed. The pollsters summarized young people’s attitudes as being ‘why fight for a country that isn’t fighting for you?’ No wonder governments across Europe are now reintroducing conscription or other schemes to push new recruits into the armed forces, such as France’s strategy to encourage young people to volunteer for paid military training. Belgium is rolling out a similar plan, while the Netherlands has openly mulled bringing back the draft.

German perspective on growing war propaganda

The War-Hysteria in Europe is not accidental. It has been prepared and seeded in the continent's population for a long time through war narratives, propaganda and actual cognitive warfare plans. 

Today I speak with Dr. Jonas Tögel, a German propaganda researcher and author. 

We discuss war messaging in Europe, German military outreach in schools, youth resistance, NATO narratives, the role of the US and EU, the collapse of antiwar politics, and the way propaganda, fear, and media overload shape public opinion. 

They also discuss public resistance, self-care, and keeping a peace movement alive.