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By David Swanson, Progressive Hub
It’s a crowded field, I know. Soldiers are proudly publishing videos of their own gruesome crimes. Prime Ministers are touring the world in defiance of arrest warrants. But I want to make sure we’re aware of one prominent member of the list of individuals responsible for the crime of war: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican from the state of total submission to Trump).
War is a crime under numerous laws and treaties, absolutely regardless of who does it. There is no exception for legislatures. But let’s assume that you define all distant murders (such as of Venezuelan boaters) as war, and that you commit to total non-recognition of all the laws against war (and of the U.S. Constitution’s mandate that treaties be the supreme law of the land) — in other words, let’s assume that you are the New York Times. Then you’re left with the problem that the U.S. Constitution allows the Congress and not the Executive to declare wars.
From Nixon's fireplace, we limped along empty Presidential-seeming PR-Chimera candidate ‘messiahs’ with leaden hollow legs and soft, moldable clay feet. And now, as Trump re-makes and re-writes continuance Act Two, I can no longer keep quiet about the monsters which we made, including Trump. Trump filled a Democrat-engineered power vacuum.
Until the DNC sees its truly ugly face in the mirror, we can expect America to glow cherry-red.
Katherine Smith PhD
I. Lightning in the Laboratory
Opening Scene
I remember the night of November 4, 2008 - streaks of tears on my face, neighbors on the street, strangers embracing strangers. Barack Obama's words hung suspended like scripture: "There is something happening… they know in their hearts this time must be different."
Seventeen years later, I am not left with scripture but with ashes. Somewhere down the line from "Yes We Can" to "Hope and Data Slides," we stopped shaping leaders and started shaping monsters - patchwork messiahs cobbled together with polling data and donor money. They stand on clay feet and fall under the weight of their own braggadocio.
By Mark Aurelius
There is nothing new or unusual about blaming the enemy—even if those blamed really did not do anything.
This is precisely the backbone idea of “false flag operations” so endemic to modern politics (that is to say, commit a political crime, usually of war crime with a staged attack, and then manipulate the naïve masses by dominant media blowhards by blaming your stealth deed onto your opposition—as in switching out the visible flag to your chosen ‘no-good-doer’ as thus blamed).
Remember that one of the quintessential descriptors of Satan of the Old Testament is that of the ‘accuser.’
For example, a chosen no-do-gooder might be one publicly accused of committing an assassination when in fact the crime is more complex and secretly far more manipulated often with some patsy included.
Emily Bynum
First, it is important to note: there is no single, official, or court-certified "list of Epstein's clients." Many names have emerged through various channels, including:
Rick Foster
As you take a drink of water this morning, you consume a little glyphosate, a little PFAS, a little Lead. As you breathe, a cloud of benzene, ultrafine particulates, and formaldehyde follows you. As you eat, you consume the flotsam and jetsam of the chemical age. They are mostly not exceptional exposures - they are constant, daily, and invisible.
The News Media gushes about ultra-high-cost cancer management. They let cause slip through their sieve, even implying that vegetarian cancer victims “ate too much red meat.” Big Pharma, Big Med and “The News” are a giant cancer massive wealth transfer. Prevention is not as profitable as “treatment.”
The Core Cast: A Toxic Who's Who
Here are the prime suspects, how they get in, and what they do.
by Tracy Turner
Surveillance Economy CIA FBI NSA DHS Mossad Unit 8200
The US Federal Government (CIA, DoJ, FBI, NSA) cannot tell the difference between Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Osama Bin Laden, you, your family and your neighbors. The FBI, DHS, CIA and NSA cannot see the difference between an author and a terrorist; between dissidents, journalists, writers, whistleblowers and Al Queada. Those chasing the former entities, with visions of terrorism marking their every felonious, bad-faith stab at freedom and democracy, know that fakery and deceit posing as terrorist eradication pays as big as a winning mega slot machine in Vegas.
Surveillance Role Players are Government Snitches, and Government Informants, known by the acronym SRPs. Like almost everything else in an Orwellian government and “Society,” SRP is a misnomer. SVF would have been more fitting, SVF for Surveillance Violence Fomenter. SRPs are the government's dirty work, felony crimes that go unreported and unpunished.
Robert David
Welcome to the Grocery Game of Loophole Laws
Walk into any Von’s, Albertsons, or Safeway in the U.S. or Canada, and you’re stepping into a modern-day chemical carnival dressed as a grocery store. These supermarket titans dominate aisle after aisle, peddling products that often contain ingredients banned elsewhere or wrapped in packaging saturated with forever chemicals—all thanks to gaping loopholes in food safety laws.
Under the winsome soft "natural" labels and silky advertisements, however, is a shadow economy of poisons, additives, and hormone-fed meat repudiated by European and Canadian regulators years ago. But back here in North America, Von's and its ilk operate behind the scenes, using technical loopholes to generate profits as consumers pay the price in compromised health.
The story isn't so much about what's in the product—but about what's not being told in the labels. What these chains won't disclose, and the chemicals they still pump into millions, is one of corporate greed and regulatory failure.
1. The PFAS Packaging Poison: Forever Chemicals Hidden in Your Lunch
Cathy Smith
Fifty Years of Bickering at the Lip of the Anthropocene Volcano
They who have perceived the red-blue mirage on the horizon are done cheering on clowns promising water. They have watched the thermometers, looked at the pages of debt, and measured the ash. They have watched the world tilting towards populace doom as its two “great camps” bickered over who sported the moral halo the most convincingly. The general public looks at partisan mirages and salivates for the water that is only vapors on the horizon. The planet, the last one we will ever have, teeters on Anthropocene whist we argue over bathroom genders. The Earth dies as we argue over where to poop. Which color of politician “deserves” assassination. What we all deserve, in 2025, is a dead planet, devoid of all humans.
For five decades, the globe has slept in a circus tent pitched at the foot of Vesuvius. The volcano is there — carbon, nitrogen runoff, melting ice, dying ecosystems, antibiotic-resistant flesh-eating bacteria — but the crowd prefers the show. Every election season another routine: red clown, blue clown, pie in the face. Behind the guffaws, the ground shakes. The slogans grow thick with wildfire ash. Even the swamps are burning.
by Fred Gransville
The United States Constitution is not genius because it has a vision of human beings as angels, but because it subjects fallible men and women to law instead of to passion. The republic endures only as long as disputes are resolved by ballots, by arguments, by amendments - and not by bullets, bombs, and mobs.
But history discloses a more profound thread of blacker violence in our nation's history: the consistent use of political violence to repress, terrify, and disrupt. From Dealey Plaza in 1963 to Orum, Utah in 2025, violence has haunted our political life like a ghost, ironizing the promise of nonviolent self-government.
By Ned Lud
Children of Our Depraved New Millennium
"They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." - Hosea 8:7
The coming of the new millennium was greeted with fanfare as one of progress, prosperity, and peace. But for its children, it has been none of these. They were promised illumination and brought flash screens that glare with violence. They were promised safety and offered guns in war zones and blood sport La’merica. They were promised abundance, but millions go hungry with empty bellies while oligarchs’ tables groan with feasts. We have begun a thousand years of bloodshed of starving of children as sex toys for oligarchs as “prophet.” “Earned.”
Across continents, the children of this Brave New Millennium are betrayed. They are not raised by the mother's song but by the hum drone lullabies under the heavens. They are not sent to school but smuggled along borders, sold into slavery, or starved like pawns in sovereigns' games who see human life as disposable. Their innocence is stolen in power bedrooms, in mines in which their own fingers dig out the cobalt, in sweatshops in which their own backs bend to fuel the engines of wealth.