“U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has ‘ignored the science’ and ‘lost the public trust.’ A video of Kennedy’s short speech was shown to a Gavi meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, where the organization that has paid for more than 1 billion children to be vaccinated through routine immunization programs was hoping to raise at least $9 billion for the next five years. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, mentioned Gavi’s partnership with the World Health Organization during COVID-19, accusing them of silencing ‘dissenting views’ and ‘legitimate questions’ about vaccine safety. His speech also cast doubt on the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine — which WHO and other health agencies have long deemed to be safe and effective.” (06/26/25)
“Iranian President Mahmoud ‘the-Holocaust-is-a-myth’ Ahmadinejad does not deny his intentions. He stated that Israel should be ‘wiped off the map.’ And ‘G-d willing, with the force of G-d behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.’ The part about wiping Israel off the map received widespread attention. But our mainstream news media seemed less interested in the other part of Ahmadinejad’s speech, in which he looked forward to ‘a world without the United States.’ Bellicose statements from Iran are certainly nothing new.” [editor’s note: But those statements are old. Ahmadinejad left office 12 years ago – TLK] (06/26/25)
“In the annals of national suicide, the present dismantling of the American state will surely rank high. It may not reach the apogee attained by Russia in its final Tsarist days or by Louis XVI in the run-up to the French Revolution, but Great Britain’s Brexit hardly smolders compared to the anti-democratic dumpster fire of the Trump regime. Countless governmental, scientific, educational, medical, and cultural institutions have been targeted for demolition. The problem for the rest of the world is that the behavior of Trumpian America is more than suicidal — it’s murderous. The deaths are mounting. By one accounting, the disruption of overseas food and drug shipments from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including life-saving HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria treatments, has already caused nearly 350,000 deaths (and they continue at an estimated rate of 103 per hour).” (06/26/25)
“North Korea is opening a beach resort that its leader Kim Jong Un hopes will boost tourism in the secretive communist regime, state media reports. Wonsan Kalma on the east coast will open to domestic tourists on 1 July, six years after it was due to be completed. It is unclear when it will welcome foreigners. Kim grew up in luxury in Wonsan, where many of the country’s elite have private villas, and has been trying to transform the town, which once hosted a missile testing site. State media KCNA claims the resort can accomodate up to 20,000 visitors, occupying a 4km (2.5 mile) stretch of beach, with hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and a water park – none of which can be verified. Heavily sanctioned for decades for its nuclear weapons programme, North Korea is among the poorest countries in the world.” (06/26/25)
“The Trump administration’s latest effort to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion programs encountered a new obstacle last week, as a federal judge blocked officials from enforcing AmeriCorps grant restrictions that threatened to strip funding from San Francisco schools and community organizations. The preliminary injunction, issued by the U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen on June 18, marks one of the first legal setbacks for the Trump administration’s crusade against federal DEI efforts and could potentially shape how similar restrictions are enforced across other federal grant programs. The ruling temporarily blocks the enforcement of the restrictions. The restrictions were triggered by an executive order — Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing — signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, his first day back in office.” (06/25/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“There is nothing you can say to me that will make me stop opposing Israel’s western-backed atrocities. Call me an antisemite or a Nazi or any name you want. The name-calling stopped having any effect a long time ago. Babble about October 7 and Hamas and hostages all you wish. I’ve stopped listening to you. Pile on as many walls of text as you like explaining why it is actually fine and good to bomb hospitals and massacre starving civilians seeking aid. I ain’t reading all that, free Palestine. Regurgitate whatever the latest propaganda narrative is about Iran or the Houthis or Hezbollah or whichever new war Israel is getting ready to start this week. We both know it’s all lies. Parrot whatever’s the current hasbara slogan justifying Israel’s genocide in Gaza if you want to. Your words have no power here.” (06/26/25)
“Et voila! New York City’s mayoral race has been won by Zohran Mamdani, no Bernie Sanders-style imitator but the real thing — son of a famed socialist scholar and Marvel superhero to every Jacobin-reading, keffiyeh-wearing student activist huddled in Judean People’s Front-type confabs, between bell hooks readings and visits to Mom and Dad on the Upper West Side. In this country, it’s the most significant movement victory in a century, almost certainly presaging in the near future an epic clash at the summit of American politics between socialism and, well, anything else. As Michael Buffer would say, ‘Let’s get ready to rum-m-m-ble!'” (06/25/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Well it’s been a crazy couple of days. Trump bombed Iran’s civilian nuclear energy facilities in an attack that CNN reports did no lasting damage, and Iran exercised extraordinary restraint with symbolic retaliatory strikes on US military bases coordinated to avoid American casualties — a move many are comparing to Iran’s non-lethal response to the US assassination of General Qassem Soleimani in 2020. After pumping out deception and fake diplomacy for weeks in order to assist Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran and launch an unprovoked attack on his own, Trump took to social media to proudly celebrate his administration’s facilitation of a ceasefire to the war he himself needlessly started, like an arsonist giving himself a trophy for extinguishing one of his own house fires.” (06/25/25)
“A former top aide to President Joe Biden said she was authorized to direct autopen signatures but was unaware of who in the president’s inner circle was giving her final clearance, according to a source familiar with the aide’s closed-door testimony in front of Congress Tuesday. Neera Tanden, the former director of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, testified for hours Tuesday during an interview in front of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the former president’s mental acuity and his use of an automatic signature tool that allowed aides to sign pardons, memos and other important documents on Biden’s behalf. … The system of approval used, according to Tanden’s testimony relayed to Fox News, was inherited from previous administrations.” (06/25/25)
Source: Fox News Forum
by Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, (USA, ret.)
“The headlines may proclaim a ceasefire, but let us be clear: the Israeli-Iranian war is far from over. What we are witnessing is not peace; it is a tactical intermission. The guns may be momentarily silent, but the war remains alive in motive, method, and mindset. President Donald Trump’s June 23 announcement of ‘a complete and total ceasefire’ between Israel and Iran brought a welcome pause to twelve days of deadly escalation. Yet his own remarks in the hours that followed, including en route to the NATO summit, betrayed the precarious nature of that agreement — and the volatility of the players involved. Just before boarding Air Force One, Trump issued a pointed public rebuke: ‘Calm down, Israel!’ He warned Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu that any strike against Iran after the ceasefire’s effective hour would constitute a violation.” (06/25/25)
