Before sunrise on July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo stepped out of his Houston home, patted his dog goodbye, got into his work van and drove off to pick up his crew. He had made some version of that trip for 35 years, building houses across Houston, including the one his family lives in.
European lawmakers appeared to back Poland over grievances with the Kiev regime’s honoring of WWII-era Nazis. But a closer look at the wording reveals a sinister cover-up, calling the Kiev move “regrettable” and avoiding a clear condemnation.
As the United States approaches its semi-quincentennial, the contrast between Washington’s triumphalist rhetoric and its material reality has never been starker. Defined by deep precarity at home and centuries of perpetual warfare abroad, this genocidal slaving oligarchy is entering a period of profound systemic decay.
Yet, despite decisively losing a major conflict against a middle-tier power like Iran, the Pentagon continues its grandiose, delusional scheme to militarily subdue China. How can a state failing so abysmally still contemplate a war against a peer competitor?
The answer lies in a desperate strategy of proxies—attempting to transform Japan and South Korea into the empire’s frontline munitions factories, while elite planners increasingly normalize the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Joining me to untangle the deep systemic contradictions of late-stage American empire is regular guest K.J. Noh, a brilliantly informed scholar and journalist. Together, we discuss why the US cannot look itself in its bloodied mirror, how global capital crushes East Asian sovereignty, and why the system is crying out for a complete reboot.
NHS 2028 – The Trajectory of Current Decisions (from medConfidential)
The Health Bill/Act of 2026 is expected to come into force for 2027, creating an all-powerful Department of Health in England which will have powers of Direction and delivery unmatched since the creation of the NHS. Delivery will be steered by DH/E AIs.
The USS Fort Lauderdale in a file photo. The amphibious assault ship is now docked in La Guaira, Venezuela, after the June 24 earthquakes. Under cover of disaster relief, Washington put a U.S. warship at the country’s primary port.
The U.S. Air Force now runs Venezuela’s main international airport. A U.S. amphibious warship is docked at its principal port. MQ-9 Reaper drones and combat helicopters fly reconnaissance over Caracas. Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops are deployed on land, air and sea in and around the country, operating out of two colonies: U.S.-held Puerto Rico and Dutch-held Curaçao.
The makers of the remarkable film In Symbiosis, which documents what’s wrong with the food system (including GMOs and pesticides) and points the way to a better future, need to raise £12000 to enable the film to be seen by the public in cinemas worldwide. They’re half way towards their goal – please help them get over the line in the few days that are left by donating here.
Iranian hypersonic missiles struck US command and control infrastructure across the Middle East in coordinated strikes, and the IRGC is now reportedly preparing for a ground invasion against US-backed positions. The era of uncontested American force projection in the region is collapsing in real time.
On this episode of The Target, Robert Inlakesh breaks down exactly what was hit, why the shift to hypersonic missiles changes the strategic calculus, and what an IRGC ground offensive would mean for the remaining US presence in the region — and for the global order Washington has enforced since 1945.
This is the story corporate media is already burying.
CNBC turns Hesai’s lidar partnership with Nvidia into a national-security panic while treating Pentagon blacklist politics as neutral truth. The buried facts show that U.S. law already compels corporate cooperation with surveillance, while U.S. intelligence has long weaponized global digital infrastructure. The real story is technofascism: the merger of state power, Big Tech, surveillance law, and imperial competition. The task is to fight mass surveillance and blacklist politics without joining the new Cold War against China.
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Los Deliveristas Unidos in New York City. App delivery workers have organized to win minimum pay, fight arbitrary deactivation and demand safety protections. Photo: WJP/Los Deliveristas Unidos
In the first week of July 2026, a heat dome settled over the central and eastern United States. Heat indexes reached 115 degrees. More than 185 million people were under heat alerts, and more than 30 people died before the heat broke. The real count will rise, because heat often kills through the heart, kidneys and lungs and is recorded as something else.
Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food.
TIME framed Trump’s trade threat against Spain as another diplomatic feud, but the article’s own facts reveal U.S. coercion dressed up as alliance management. Beneath the spectacle sit the real mechanisms of power: NATO’s 5 percent military levy, the U.S. bases at Rota and Morón, Spain’s refusal to assist the Iran war, and the Franco-era military relationship that still shadows Spanish sovereignty. The deeper story is that NATO is not merely an alliance but a command system, and when a member state interrupts the chain of bases, budgets, airspace, and trade obedience, the empire shows its teeth. The task now is to defend every refusal of U.S. war access, amplify anti-base movements, reject the militarized robbery of public wealth, and turn the whole imperial logistics chain into a political target.
PragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in at least ten states, and blitzes children with highly questionable messaging on race, history, and politics. Even more concerning, PragerU is led by former Israeli spy, Marissa Streit, who has stated she uses the tactics and techniques honed by IDF military intelligence on the American people.
KJ Noh discusses the restart of all out US war on Iran, what precipitated the over 80 strikes along Iran’s coastal cities, and the beginning of Iran’s retaliation
NHS England is in denial. Storyafterstoryafterstory of NHS staff creeping on patients and victims, the Chief Exec of NHS England has decided the problem is only in hospitals and national systems have no ability or responsibility on access. (more…)
On April 18th protesters gathered oppose Britain First marching through Manchester.
They were kettled, beaten, pepper sprayed, choked, hair was pulled, sexualised violence was used. Around 150 were injured by the police. Medical access was frequently obstructed.
The NATO summit taking place in Turkey this week was already looking fraught with simmering tensions between Trump and Europe. Now the jamboree in Ankara and the facade of unity are shattered by the dramatic liberation of Konstantinovka by Russian forces.
This weekend marked the 78th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. That’s nearly eight decades of universal healthcare, free at the point of use, for tens of millions of people.
Held captive without a charge for 556 days, the Palestinian doctor was taken hostage while performing his job as head of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza.
He has since been tortured so heavily that he is currently unable to talk & is struggling to breathe.
He has been kept in solitary confinement, beaten until his face was disfigured & subjected to all kinds of horrors according to the latest update provided by his son.
He will have views on what he wants to do. Good intentions always meet unforeseeable events, and some events entirely foreseen from the decisions made by his predecessor’s health secretary.