Source: New York Post
“President Trump is hosting UFC fighters on the White House lawn Sunday night but the real battle may be on the streets of Geneva, where 50,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Switzerland’s second largest city to protest the G7 summit. Geneva essentially shut down on Sunday. Businesses closed and boarded up their windows. Anti-protester wire fencing was raised around the streets. And police vans took their places on corners, with officers wearing riot gear in preparation. Trump arrives at the G7 on Monday. He, like most world leaders, will arrive at Geneva’s airport before traveling to the summit location in nearby Evian, France. French and Swiss authorities shut down 27 border crossings on Sunday to keep the protesters away from the small spa-town on the shores of Lake Geneva where Trump and the other world leaders will stay.” (06/14/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/us-news/50000-g7-protesters-shut-down-major-city-ahead-of-trump-visit-to-french-swiss-border/
Source: The Bulwark
“The vice president of the United States called a meeting in the Situation Room last year to discuss the administration’s cover-up of the Epstein files. Never mind that there were allegations in the files that Trump had had sex with an underage girl in Epstein’s child trafficking ring — and which somehow involved Trump’s alleged nipple fetish. The Epstein victims and the underlying crimes were not a priority in the meeting; getting Ghislaine or Vance on a friendly podcast was.” (06/12/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgdh0rM8o4I
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Joshua Villanueva
“Observers could easily dismiss Pope Leo XIV’s ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ as just another document on artificial intelligence. But under the surface lies a deeper question: whether modern political elites still have both the ability and the moral clarity to place restraints on power.” (06/12/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pope-leo-on-war/
Source: Common Dreams
by Robert C Koehler
“Suddenly my cynicism vanished and things started making sense… America started making sense, from past to present. I was already in the process of writing this column — hey, the nation’s 250th birthday is coming up — and had never felt more lost. Where, where, where am I going with this? What am I trying to say? My words had no core, no soul. I felt like I had given myself the random rubble of a bombed-out building to write about. Then a friend sent me a link to a New York Times opinion piece. I decided to give it a quick read. I don’t necessarily trust the Times. It can be smugly wrong. But I took a look — it was by literary critic A.O. Scott — and I couldn’t stop reading it.” (06/14/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/all-humans-are-equal
Source: Reuters
“A Spanish High Court judge investigating former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero for suspected corruption has opened a separate probe over jewellery found during a search of his office, the court said on Friday. Zapatero, prime minister from 2004 to 2011, remains a leading figure in the main ruling Socialist Party and the graft allegations — which he has denied — have added to pressure on the government following a series of corruption scandals. Investigating judge Jose Luis Calama said the jewellery items seized during the May 19 search, provisionally valued at about €1.3 million ($1.5 million), currently lack documented proof of origin. He said the possession of high-value assets without clear fiscal traceability could indicate possible tax evasion or smuggling offences, citing the absence of customs documents or evidence that import duties had been paid.” (06/12/26)
https://www.reuters.com/world/spain-opens-new-probe-into-ex-pm-zapatero-over-jewellery-found-office-2026-06-12/
Source: The Hill
“Lindsey Granger gives her lens on a report from POLITICO claiming that tensions in the White House are rising, even between President Trump and his own advisors.” (06/12/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5911474-rising-june-12-2026/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter
“As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is likely that we will hear a common, but mistaken, interpretation of the Declaration by both establishment conservatives and progressive egalitarians. After repeating Jefferson’s words ‘that all men are created equal,’ they will make a simple, true observation — at the time of writing, not everyone was treated as ‘equal’ (e.g., slavery). Following that observation comes the supposition: since the historical period of colonial America did not match the ideal of modern, progressive egalitarianism, therefore, the centralized nation-state was required to increasingly achieve that ideal.” (06/12/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/declaration-independence-versus-egalitarianism
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“When three judges in courtroom 250 deliver their verdict at Oslo District Court early on Monday, Marius Borg Høiby — the son of the crown princess of Norway — will find out the extent of his sentence. Høiby, 29, will appear via video link because of unspecified health reasons, almost three months after his trial came to an end on 40 charges, including four counts of rape. He denies the most serious offences but admits some of the lesser charges involving drugs and traffic offences. Prosecutors say he should be given seven years and seven months in jail, whereas his defence lawyers believe he should serve a year-and-a-half. Høiby, whose mother married into the royal family when he was four, has been in custody since the start of February.” (06/14/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd95xvk4vn2o
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Hits Record-Breaking Low in Polls as Aides Leak: He’s ‘Furious.'” (06/12/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/211734/trump-hits-record-breaking-low-polls-aides-leak-he-furious
Source: CounterPunch
by John W Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
“America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats the American people as little more than collateral damage in its pursuit of power, profit and control. We have been policed, surveilled, taxed, indebted, manipulated, censored, tracked, searched, silenced and sold out.” (06/12/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/12/america-the-unfree-home-of-the-policed-surveilled-and-occupied/
