Our cowardly Congresswoman, "Killer" Kathy Castor @KathyCastorFL , held a "town hall" yesterday where she screened out all the tough questions, forcing us to yell our questions at her.
@HellfireRidge@IAmSteveHarvey America has been committing genocide after genocide for 500 years - if you don't hate it, there's something very wrong with you.
This is an important moment to see how empty and manipulative the term "terrorist" is, despite how central it has become in our law, foreign policy, wars and political discourse. The word has never had any real fixed meaning.
But in the hands of Israel, it gets applied even to the targeting of soldiers with invading armies. Hezbollah kills armed IDF soldiers occupying Lebanese land -- not civilians, but soldiers -- and that's "terrorism."
Same with the West Bank: a 14-year-old Palestinian kid throws a rock at an armed IDF soldier illegally occupying their land and that gets called "terrorism."
The term "terrorism" has no meaning other than: those who fight against Israel.
Hezbollah Is Taking Out Israeli Commanders Implicated In The Killing Of Hind Rajab In Gaza
After critically wounding Colonel Meir Biderman of the 401st Israeli Armoured Bridage, the Lebanese resistance forces just killed the 52nd Battalion commander of the 401st Armoured Brigade, Lt. Col. Dor Gdalia, alongside three other invading soldiers.
While international courts have failed to bring those implicated to justice, Hezbollah is now taking out the leadership of the Israeli 401st Brigade.
The Israeli military censored more than 5,000 reports from Israeli journalists in 2025 because the revelations would be too damaging to its image.
The western media doesn't need a censor. It chooses not to publish the really critical stuff about Israel.
THE U.S. CAUSED THE COVID PANDEMIC, not China, the U.S. government revealed today.
“It's time the American people learn the real story," spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a sensation-causing video released on X and a statement on the internet.
And what a story it is.
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TRUTH AT LAST
The US spent millions to finance a lab in China’s Wuhan to experiment on killer viruses.
The research was on a technique called “gain of function” which some people see as weaponization of the viruses.
That research is “now widely viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic,” said Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence.
“This dangerous research caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives,” she added.
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PREFERRED NARRATIVE
After the pandemic broke out, Washington then worked to tell the world it could not have been a lab leak.
The preferred story circulating at the time was to say that animal-to-human transmission evolved in China due to the circumstances there.
But the evidence tells a different tale, the US spy chief said, releasing a new batch of top secret documents today, her last day in office. "It's time you know the truth," she said.
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120 BIOLABS
The story begins with the US quietly setting up 120 biological laboratories across more than 30 countries. Some of these laboratories were involved in research on hazardous pathogens, she said.
Dr Anthony Fauci, while serving as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sent millions of dollars of US taxpayer cash to be spent on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, she said.
In 2019, the Covid-19 virus apparently emerged in several locations around the world—but was first formally detected by scientists in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019.
It was soon found all over the world. The “pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions,” Gabbard said.
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PREFERRED NARRATIVE
For the US, the preferred story was that it was NOT a lab leak—because the world would realize that the Pentagon was financing biolabs around the world, and at home.
People raising the alarm about the biolabs were accused of “pushing Russian and Chinese disinformation”.
When the existence of the labs could not be denied, the BBC and other media reported that they were “peaceful labs” which were financed for entirely positive reasons—a line that Pentagon-watchers found hard to swallow.
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LIED ABOUT INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION
Fauci worked with senior intelligence agents in the early days of the pandemic to shape the narrative but lied about it, Gabbard said.
In his testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2024, he was asked under oath whether he had communicated with intelligence agencies concerning viral research before, during or after the pandemic.
Fauci replied: "Not to my knowledge, about COVID."
In January 2025, many people were puzzled when Former President Joe Biden issued “a pre-emptive pardon” to Fauci. Pardons, by definition, are given to people who have broken the law—but this had not happened at that time.
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TREMENDOUS HARDSHIP
Gabbard is retiring to spend more time with her husband, who has cancer.
But she wanted to get the truth about this subject out there before she disappeared. She says the evidence indicates US-funded research was the root of the problem.
"The COVID-19 pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and for countless people around the world,” she said.
Links to her statement and the documents are provided below.
The UK at the UN yesterday "We are horrified by footage of Israeli forces killing a 7mth old baby"
Horrified enough to take action, like halting all arms exports, imposing sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy, & ending all military ties?
So really you're not horrified at all
I disagree that we are in a "New Cold War".
Rather, we are in a continuation of what we might call the Long Cold War, or the Great Anti-Sovereignty War, which has been waged by the imperial core against liberation movements and sovereign-seeking states in the periphery that have sought to break from their subordination and exploitation within the imperialist world-system.
The Long Cold War encompasses Western attacks against the Russian revolution and the Chinese revolution, through the long series of invasions and regime-change operations that targeted Korea, Guatemala, the DRC, Brazil, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Chile, Burkina Faso, etc, continuing well beyond the fall of the USSR with the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., all the way to the strangulation of Cuba and the invasions of Venezuela and Iran in 2026.
As I see it, the usual claim that the Cold War runs from 1945-1991 doesn't work, the periodisation is wrong. The core states sought to destroy the USSR as soon as it was founded, long before 1945, and in any case their violence was never only just against the USSR, or just against USSR-aligned states, nor even just against socialism; it was fought against any sovereign-seeking state in the periphery - including non-aligned states - that threatened to escape the imperial arrangement.
The Long Cold War is, in other words, an imperialist backlash against the long struggle for liberation in the periphery. This aggression didn't end in 1991, it continues today, and it will continue well into the 21st century until it is defeated. And defeated it will be.
Some of the liberals complaining that I should focus more on the right-wingers in my book and in the below comments are missing a crucial point: different propaganda is directed at different audiences. Some of the most effective propaganda geared at well-meaning people is not overtly right wing. What makes Ezra Klein an effective (and very well paid) propagandist is that his role is laser focused on getting liberal and progressive people steered away from the deeper changes that would make society much more equal and less repressive.
New: Cities, counties and towns across Florida could lose close to a quarter of their annual property tax collections, if voters approve a state-backed ballot measure this fall that would cut and cap local property taxes.
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🇺🇸 🇵🇸 Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American citizen and honors psychology student at Birzeit University, remains in Israeli detention after soldiers seized her from her family’s home near Ramallah at 3 a.m. on June 2, with lawmakers warning her life is at risk.
Safi, whose family lives in Florida, was taken without charge and transferred to Ofer prison, then to the Moscovia interrogation center in Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. Her family says she has a chronic condition that causes fevers up to 105°F and requires daily medication and a quarterly injection she travels abroad to receive.
She was one of five Palestinian women detained that week, including two members of the Palestinian women’s national football team. The Israeli military said the women were suspected of “promoting terrorist activities.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Sen. Chris Van Hollen have both demanded her release. “I am really sick and tired of the Israeli government taking American taxpayer dollars and then mistreating Americans,” Van Hollen said. Israel has not told her family or the U.S. embassy where she is being held. Rep. Tlaib said, “Her life is at risk—our government must free her now!”
Holy shit!
French officials are saying that they believe an Israeli firm was used to interfere in the 2025 Municipal election in New York City, presumably in an attempt to stop Zohran Mamdani
An important statement. Surely now the U.S.-sponsored human rights "non-profit" crowd will follow the example of @UNHumanRights and begin condemning the genocidal policy of the U.S. (Rubio).