July 2nd, 2026 Newsletter

From Field to Fork

The purpose of our newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media.

“The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.” – Robert Kennedy Jr.

“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of sceptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask sceptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be sceptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.” – Carl Sagan

“Never worry about who will be offended if you speak the Truth. Worry about who will be misled, deceived and destroyed, if you do not.” and
”Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

Though the chapters interrelate, they are divided into six sections and have a common realisation that a cabal of corporate elites have captured global trade, global and national governance, mainstream and online media, and ultimately many of our minds.

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Food & Farming

Featured video: Rachel Ward

‘While most of the world is herded into cities, my sister Rachel and I have been lucky enough to return to our roots in the countryside. Though living thousands of miles apart, we share the view that re-localising the food economy is the only way to revitalise rural economies, ensure livestock can express their natural behaviour and put healthy food on our plate. Fighting for the survival of real farmers is our raison d’etre. Rachel’s success in acting allowed her to purchase her own farm which she not only turned (natural) regenerative but also manages it, so spends her days in Australia’s beautiful sunshine with her beloved cattle. To connect conscientious citizens to their high welfare, fair priced, food, she co-founded their field to fork meat business, Farmthru.’

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Despite the impact the herbicide called glyphosate has on our health and that of the ecosystem, it is frequently used in regenerative agriculture to kill the cover crop. To avoid greenwashing farms could label their farming system either chemical-regenerative or natural-regenerative.

Read; The government is negligent over glyphosate, says leading professor by Nick Easen, GM Watch, 18 June 2026

‘Michael Antoniou, Professor Emeritus at King’s College London, is on a mission to educate people about glyphosate and the corruptness of the regulating system. Michael Antoniou is not an alarmist. Nor is he an activist. This is a man who has dedicated his life to biological science. He bases his conclusions on the evidence he sees before him. And on glyphosate he thinks the UK government are negligent and that a ban is long overdue.

These are tough words from someone who has researched this issue for over a decade. As Professor in Molecular Genetics and Toxicology in the Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics at King’s College London, over the last 14 years, his research group has become a world leader in glyphosate toxicology, having conducted and published dozens of independent, peer-reviewed studies. Antoniou retired last year but continues to oversee research as Professor Emeritus and hasn’t stopped campaigning for better awareness, and pushing for action.

“Glyphosate-based herbicides are probably one of the most deceptively toxic pesticides ever invented, because you’re lulled into a false sense of security. They take time to act so it is difficult to make the link with cancers or other diseases (e.g. fatty liver) you might have later down the line. Then there’s a belief that it just affects weeds – it’s just not true. We need to raise public awareness on these issues,” explains Professor Michael Antoniou.

He adds; “Regulators are not fully embracing the latest science in order to enact policies that will better protect us. Therefore, we have to take matters into our own hands. Whenever I speak about this in public, people are shocked to know just how inadequate the risk assessments are for these pesticides.”

The biggest challenge relates to formulations. The world’s most popular weedkiller is never applied on its own, but as a chemical cocktail. So-called adjuvants are added so glyphosate becomes effective. These improve the herbicide’s “stickiness” and allow crops and weeds to absorb glyphosate.

“It’s negligent of the UK government and the European Union to only set exposure limits based on studies of glyphosate alone. They have never required long-term toxicity studies on commercial formulations, which every person and every plant in the field is actually exposed to,” explains Professor Antoniou.

He adds; “Yet the evidence shows that these cocktails are much more toxic than glyphosate alone. The number of studies that demonstrate this are in the hundreds now. Let’s not forget the co-formulants are highly toxic in their own right and they can be carcinogenic as well.”

Never forget that corporations use PR to persuade us that their product is good for us when in reality their sole raison d’etre is to make a profit.

Watch; Create the problem, sell the cure, seedoilscout, 17 June 2026

‘Most people never stop to question how tightly the modern food system and the modern medical system are connected. Monsanto manufactures glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide used on major food crops around the world. It’s sprayed not only to control weeds, but often directly on crops before harvest to speed up drying, which increases residue levels in the food supply. This chemical was never part of human evolution, yet exposure is now routine and unavoidable for most people. Bayer manufactures pharmaceutical drugs, including treatments for serious illnesses like Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.’

‘Bayer is a pharma company, Monsanto is a pesticide company. Bayer bought Monsanto. Bayer makes drugs for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Monsanto makes a toxic herbicide called glyphosate to spray on food crops. Glyphosate causes Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Create the problem, sell the cure.’

Farmers don’t want to hurt anyone but when supermarkets force them to compete with cheap low standard imports, how do they survive unless they find the cheapest way to maximise production? Citizens must buy organic and farmers will provide it.

Read; Roundup may affect hormones tied to pregnancy and fetal development, new research finds, GM Watch, 21 June 2026

‘Exposure to glyphosate herbicide was linked to changes in several hormones that support pregnancy and fetal development — in one of the few studies to examine how a widely used herbicide may affect the body during pregnancy. The results come from a new study led by University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers.

The study, published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, looked at 752 pregnant women in Puerto Rico.

The research team found that higher levels of glyphosate and a related compound were associated with changes in hormones that help support the placenta, fetal growth, and timing of labour. The authors write: “This study provides first evidence of associations between prenatal glyphosate and AMPA [the main breakdown product of glyphosate] exposure and disruption of multiple maternal hormonal pathways during pregnancy. Findings suggest these contaminants may interfere with estrogenic, thyroid, and stress hormone systems critical for pregnancy maintenance and fetal development, with implications for understanding mechanisms underlying adverse birth outcomes.’

Not satisfied with just poisoning the ecosystem with chemical inputs, the UK government has given the all clear to genetically modify it. However, thanks to the work of advocacy group Beyond GM, the High Court has ruled that the government unlawfully failed to consider the impacts – on farmers, businesses, consumers and the organic sector – of removing transparency and labelling for gene-edited crops and food.

Read; It’s time to FixTheRegulations, Beyond GM, 9 June 2026

‘We’ve been overwhelmed by messages of congratulations on a decisive win in our judicial review of the Genetic Technology Regulations. These messages have come from supporters in the UK, but also from the EU, including members of the European Parliament, and as far away as New Zealand, where advocacy groups like us are facing the same challenges. But let’s not get complacent.

We have already entered the next phase of this legal fight – negotiation with the government and Court. The judicial review demonstrated the problem – now we have to fix it.

Earlier this year Beyond GM launched the Citizens’ Charter on Genetic Technologies. The Charter sets out a series of principles that many people believe should apply whenever genetic technologies are introduced into food, farming and the environment, including transparency, traceability, informed choice, accountability and meaningful public participation. The High Court judgment reinforces the importance of many of these principles.

Over the coming weeks we invite you to take two simple actions to help put pressure on the Secretary of State to acknowledge the judgement and fix the problem.

Write to your MP; Your MP can help by writing to the Secretary of State, passing on your concerns and expressing support for transparency and labelling. Use our e-action tool to write to your MP or parliamentary representative and ask them what steps they will take to ensure any revision of the Regulations includes meaningful transparency, traceability and labelling measures. Ask them, too, if they will support the core principles set out in the Citizens’ Charter. This initiative is already off to a flying start but we need many more people to join in. It doesn’t take long and it does meaningful work in letting the government know what the people want.

Help break the silence; Despite the significance of this judgment, we cannot rely on the mainstream media – which has been reporting industry talking points without comment, question or critique for years – to report the story fairly, if at all. Please consider forwarding our press release and judgment summary to your local newspaper, local radio station, community newsletter, farming publication or environmental group. The more people who understand what the Court found, the harder it will be for these issues to be ignored.

Together we can move this issue forward.’

Much more information can be found on Beyond GM, and you can help with their legal fees at crowdjustice.

Listen; Pat Thomas, Co Founder and Co Director of Beyond GM is interviewed on UK Column speaking about the issue above. July 2nd 2026

‘Despite warnings and despite continued strong EU public opposition to GMOs, the European Parliament voted today in favor of far-reaching deregulation of labeling and safety testing of new genetic engineering.’

Read; A sad day for democracy and science, Save our Seed, 17 June 2026

‘Before the European Parliament voted today on the deregulation of new genetically modified crops, our team spent two days on the ground in Strasbourg.

Monday’s meeting of the Environment Committee (ENVI) already gave a hint of the direction the debate would take. Under the watchful eyes of numerous lobbyists from the agricultural and biotech industries, a compromise was rushed through that reduces transparency, weakens protection standards, and further increases the influence of patents on seeds.

Numerous committee members were replaced by alternates at the last minute, and key amendments were not put to a separate vote. Instead of an open political debate, the impression was one of a process designed primarily to conceal conflicts within the major political groups.

On Tuesday, we demonstrated in front of the Parliament alongside 200 farmers, beekeepers, breeders, environmental organizations, and consumer groups against the planned deregulation. Our team delivered the demands of more than 600,000 citizens from across Europe: Maintain labeling, ensure transparency, and limit patents on seeds!

Despite these warnings and despite continued strong public support for labeling and safety testing of new genetic engineering, the European Parliament voted today in favor of far-reaching deregulation.

Further reactions to the EU deregulation of new GMOs

Read; New GMOs deregulated: A betrayal of farmers, consumers and science itself, GM Watch, 18 June 2026

1. New GMOs deregulated: A betrayal of farmers, consumers and science itself

Corporate Europe Observatory, 17 June 2026

The right-wing majority in the European Parliament today has voted today to scrap existing safety and transparency rules for new GM foods (NGTs). By doing so they betrayed farmers, consumers and science itself.

Today’s vote means that big seed and pesticide companies like Bayer-Monsanto, BASF, Corteva, Syngenta, and their lobby groups including Euroseeds and Croplife EU, can increase their profits and do not have to ensure their products are safe. It will cause an increased dependency by farmers and breeders on these few corporations (mostly US- or China-owned), which is a threat to food security. Already today, these multinational seed corporations dominate 60% of the commercial seed market, leading to a highly concerning level of dependency.

Nina Holland (Corporate Europe Observatory) says: “From the outset, the NGT(new GM foods) law proposal from the European Commission had no scientific basis and is built on false promises of sustainability. The EU is taking a big step back in health and environmental protection by excluding most NGT plants from safety tests and traceability requirements. The rightwing EPP rapporteur Jessica Polfjärd has played a dirty trick on democracy by not actually defending during trilogues the EP’s main demands for labeling and restricting patents as adopted in February 2024.”

“On Monday evening already biotech seed lobbyists like Garlich von Essen of Euroseeds were popping champagne bottles in the EP Swan Bar. Copa-Cogeca for its part shamefully betrayed farmers rights by recommending MEPs to vote against the patent amendments, even though farmers and breeders will be harmed by a surge of patented crops. This law goes directly against the need for a more fair, diverse and resilient agriculture.”

“If consumers want to know what is in their food, support farmers and avoid harmful chemicals, the only option is to choose organic food.”

2. The deregulation of GMOs is now law in Europe

Centro Internazionale Crocevia

NOTE: This article is an unofficial Deepl translation from the original Italian.

-21 organisations condemn this extremely serious vote against food sovereignty, farmers’ rights and consumers’ rights

The European Parliament’s vote in favour represents a step backwards of twenty-five years, which abolishes risk assessment, traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms produced using New Genomic Techniques (NGT) and allows for the transfer of patent rights to conventional plants. This could spell the end of the precautionary principle; by allowing patented GM crops into the environment, it paves the way for further centralisation of the seed market in the hands of a handful of agrochemical multinationals.’

Keep natural food alive, buy local organic direct from farmers!

Watch; The truth about why they’re wiping out farmers, NashobaWakerUpper, 20 March 2026

“Let me tell you a little story about why they’re trying to wipe out the farmers. Once upon a time, organic food was just food. Grass fed beef was just beef and raw milk. That’s right, it’s just milk. Crazy right? But then things started to change. Farmers who just want to grow real healthy food for the people were forced to legally use government issued pesticides and chemicals. This ruined the land and made the people sick. Then came the schemes. Farmers were offered money. They were literally paid to not grow food. Instead they were told to grow wild flowers and scatter birdseed. Sounds nice on the surface, but what happens when less food gets grown, prices rise and scarcity sets in. At the same time, fertiliser costs quadrupled. And here’s the kicker. £500 million was taken away from our farmers and handed to farmers abroad. You have to ask yourself why they blame the so-called climate crisis and say cow’s farts are the problem. Really? Meanwhile, the world’s largest landowners are pushing for us to eat bugs and lab grown foods. It’s just all part of the agenda to 1, control what goes into our food, 2, to wipe out the farming industry piece by piece and 3, to make sure family farms are lost to inheritance tax forever. It’s all part of the bigger plan. Because remember this, no farmers means no real food. When you control the food supply, you control the people. So here’s what you can do. Support your local farmers whenever you can. Buy from farm shops, choose grass fed, hand reared meats, unhomogenised milk and real free range eggs. Stop filling your body with supermarket food like products. These are designed to keep you weak because every time you buy local, you’re keeping real food alive.”

Survey of the public’s conception of food created in the lab.

Read; Cultivated Meat: Trust, Power and the Future of Food our Food System, A Bigger Conversation, 1 June 2026

‘These studies have mainly focused on public acceptance through questions of price, taste, awareness and perceptions of safety. They have generated important insights, but have tended to frame the public as passive recipients of these novel food technologies.

At present, the discourse around cultivated meat is being shaped by scientists, biotechnology companies, investors and policymakers, but decisions about how these products are developed, regulated and introduced into food systems are not only technical matters. They raise broader questions about power, accountability and public trust.

Cultivated meat has emerged at a time of growing concern about the environmental and social consequences of industrial agriculture. Intensive farming practices contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, soil degradation and animal welfare concerns, and food systems are increasingly marked by inequalities in access to healthy diets and by the concentration of corporate power. In response, cellular agriculture has been promoted as a way of producing meat and fish through in vitro processes such as tissue engineering and precision fermentation, reducing reliance on land, oceans and animal slaughter.

What counts as meat?

At the same time, debates about cultivated meat reveal that what counts as “meat” is not simply a scientific question. Around the world, disagreements over the meaning and legitimacy of cultivated meat have shaped whether these products are approved for sale or prohibited. Italy and Hungary have banned its sale, while Singapore, Australia and some states in the US have approved cultivated meat products. These developments highlight the socio-cultural and political significance of meat, and the ways in which language, regulation and market interests shape what is recognised as culturally acceptable food.

Additionally, the various actors leading the cultivated meat discourse are vying to define cultivated meat in ways that may serve their specific interests, govern consumer behaviour and structure markets.’

Because the government doesn’t guarantee milk prices that cover the cost of production, dairy farmers are being bankrupted by milk company profiteering and supermarket price-gouging.

Read; Britain loses 160 dairy producers in just six months, Farming UK, 12 June 2026

‘The latest AHDB survey of major milk buyers estimates that there were 6,850 dairy producers in GB as of April 2026, down 2.3% since the previous survey in October 2025.

Year-on-year, producer numbers have fallen by an estimated 190, or 2.7%, since April 2025. The figures suggest most industry exits took place last winter, when dairy margins came under renewed pressure.’

Like all farmers, Clarkson loves his cows, and is sad and frustrated when one of them has to be culled even though the TB test result was inconclusive.

Watch; Even Jabber Jeremy Clarkson can understand the absurdity with the Bovine TB test, Jamie Andrews, 19 June 2026

‘Even Jabber Jeremy Clarkson can understand the absurdity with the Bovine TB test. They inject a load of chemical gunk into a cow, if the injection site swells at all they kill the cow. Just the imprecision of the test alone of how it is measured is noted. But the true scam lies in a monumentally stupid assumption that somehow puncturing the skin and injecting a foreign agent shouldn’t injure. Really they are taking the most healthy cattle and slaughtering them. With 1 in 4 healthy people testing positive for TB, this scam is not getting any better with PCR tests either.’

Vet; “If she goes today, the rest of the herd, we have to be tested again in a month’s time and then probably again six days later. So your farm’s under restrictions until that point.”

Clarkson; “I believe the test is a bit haphazard.

Vet; “For what reason?”

Clarkson; “You got those tweezers on you? So you get a lump. This is what you do, a lump on the cow’s neck and you walk up to it and you squeeze it, and then it tells you how big the lump is. Because there’s a measuring bit here. But if you pull it down hard or not hard, you get a different reading. And the cow’s doing this (shaking) while you’re trying to do it and then you just go, well, there’s…and there’s only need be a millimetre in it. We have to lose a cow, shut the whole farm down. And that is how it’s measured?”

Vet; “Takes a lot of practice.”

Clarkson; ” Well, I still think it’s a bit haphazard. “She’s a very, very pretty cow and pregnant with twins.”

Vet; “How far pregnant is she?”

Clarkson; “Five months.”

Lisa Hogan; “When will we know?”

Clarkson; “In about one minute.”

Vet; ” So I’ve re-measured both lumps today, top, bottom. Last time here, 7 miilimetres, 9 millimetres, this time it’s 11 millimetres and 40 millimetres So I look at my chart, she is inconclusive again.”

Manager; “That means that she’s going to have to go because she’s effectively inconclusive twice.”

Clarkson; “I don’t understand any of these rules. That seems to me like a hung jury, it’s six and six and then the judge goes, that’s inconclusive so we’re going to execute you is that’s exactly what’s happening here.”

Lisa Hogan; “Can I ask you a question? Can we keep her in here until she has her calves? And will the calves have TB?”

Vet; “That’s a good question. Part of the reason I asked how pregnant she was if she was in the last month, I think they give the option of keeping her calving down here. But she’s only five months pregnant. They will take her to sort of. ..yeah.”

Clarkson; ” And seriously? Jesus Christ, why do people farm? Why?”

This ruminant chapter of the Pathways Research project examines cattle, sheep, and goat producing meat and dairy systems. Intensive indoor livestock systems can be studied alongside local, small scale traditional outdoor farming systems.

Listen; What’s the future for ruminants? Farm Gate, 9 June 2026

‘ffinlo Costain is joined by Simon Moakes, a research fellow at Aberystwyth University in Wales – by Dr David Yáñez, a research professor at the Spanish National Research Council – and by Sara Hall, a PhD researcher working in the research team at Pasture for Life in the UK. This is the fourth of our programmes investigating Pathways – a 5-year EU Horizon 2020-funded research project that’s been running since 2021.’

Sarah Hall; “……… at the end of this project we are able to see really exciting win-wins for the farm businesses and how reducing the inputs and becoming more profitable at the same time, is the experience a lot of our members have. We can see how implementing grazing management strategies is providing other ecosystem services as well. I think the most valuable side of the approach for Pathways is that it’s moved the conversation beyond whether livestock are good or bad, and instead its really looked at what role they can play. That’s very much where we spend a lot of our time thinking in terms of resilience and that’s really what our members are looking for and all farmers are looking for is a resilience system which some people call sustainable food systems……”

ffinlo Costain; “I wonder from your perspective, whether you see regionalisation as an economic opportunity or a threat in terms of things like jobs.”

Sarah Hall; “For Pasture for Life’s perspective, regionalisation has clear benefits. So members that are trying to reconnect production and consumption and shorten supply chains retain more value within rural communities, the smaller processes, local butchers, local markets, direct sales, these are all going to help keep economic value of the food within the region, which I think is really important, and that’s all building into that localised food security. But at the same time, not romanticising regionalisation so large infrastructure often exists because it delivers the economy of scales and If you replace one large abattoir with several smaller facilities, you would gain resilience as the local economy I would argue. Undoubtedly animal welfare benefits are there, but it may increase costs and it opens up that conversation as to who pays for the costs that may be associated. So it’s not so much the question of whether regionalisation is inherently good or bad, but what outcomes are trying to achieve. For me, regionalisation reduces the risks as a farmer and I think that that’s true for a lot of farms in the position that our family are in and it makes us more resilient. When regions lose that local processing infrastructure, farms become dependent on a small number of very large operations, where there’s a big risk there. They may be economically efficient for the wider food chain, but I don’t think it can be argued as beneficial for the animals or farmers or the local economy.”

While imports and fake food are cheaper, real farmers are forced to diversify away from farming. However, it’s not all bad news as agritourism is a way for visitors to see how food should be produced and how they can source their food from agro-ecological UK farmers …….or lose them.

Listen; Agritourism, BBC Farming Today, 24 June 2026

Presenter; “There’s a little area here where you can actually watch milking live. You can look through the window and see the parlour. When the cows are in there, you can see them being milked. One of the people who’s part of the Global Agritourism Network is Hans Embacher. Now, Hans, you run a business called Holidays on the Farm in Austria. How does it work in Austria?”

Hans Embacher; “Well, in Austria, farm holidays are an important part of the tourism industry and agriculture. We have about 7,000 farms who offer a total of 74,000 guest beds. This is very popular in Austrian tourism and also pays a good contribution to the economic development of agriculture in rural regions. Per year we have a total of about one and a half million visitors. They stay overnight at least one night. About 60% of our visitors are families with children. Those who visit our farms actually want to see real life. They want to experience the farmers’ work. They want to discuss with the farmers, why do you do it? How do we do it? And of course they are critical as well. So you have a very transparent production. We don’t have any intensive farming amongst our members. So the guests do not want to see 3,000 pigs on the farm. So they like the ideal farm which we have in Austria, as the farms are very small.”

ffinlo Costain, Presenter, and Alex Gray, Farming and Environment lecturer at Loughborough College, find that universities train as their wealthy agro-biz funders dictate; namely conventional, intensive, chemical-heavy monoculture farming.

Listen; How to get progressive farming better-embedded into college and university courses, Farm Gate, 25 June 2026

ffinlo Costain; “You’ve just done your GCSEs and you’re moving on into further education or going out to work, what kind of courses would people be doing?”

Alex Gray; “…….. the universities have gone, ‘let’s make some really good industry-relevant courses, let’s go to the biggest names in livestock production or crop production’. And they said, what would you like from an employee? And they go, ‘well, to fit into our massive industrial approach, we want someone who knows this and doesn’t really think about anything else and is optimised for producing one commodity very, very well’. As we all know, there is no ecosystem on the planet that is optimised for producing one resource really well, they produce multiple things and that’s the way we need to be thinking about farming and land management.”

ffinlo Costain; “….. It’s much easier to sell a course about big dirty tractors than it is about black soldier fly management or integrating trees with cattle and sheep. So how do you attract young people into those more progressive courses, do you think?”

Alex Gray; “I think the key is you need to inspire them.There’s a real opportunity here to go, ‘you guys are going to be the people that solve this mess. And you could do it in an absolutely glorious way if you get the chance to have a go and test your knowledge’. One of the problems we have in the modern world are people doing jobs without a sense of meaning, without a sense of purpose. And what better purpose would there be to simultaneously restore habitats, ecosystem function, improve the natural aesthetic of the landscape, improve rural economies and our food resilience? I think they’re deeply rewarding and human things to do. So I think that needs to be made very clear, showing that a career in regenerative farming can be very, very deeply rewarding.”

In Japan the sourcing and preparation of school meals are brought into the curriculum, teaching children about nutrition and cooking solutions and consequently Japan has a very low rate of obesity.

Listen; Inside England’s School Food Shake‑Up, BBC The Food Programme, 12 June 2026

Presenter; “Japan came to our attention recently when we saw online some videos made in a Japanese school by Colette Fox, who is the public food lead at the charity ProVeg International. Colette was in Osaka with the Global Child Nutrition Foundation, gathering information on school food and its links to public health. Japan has one of the lowest rates of obesity in the rich world, an achievement that many observers see tied into government policy since the 1950s that’s given priority to good quality school food linked to education about food and its direct connections to health. Colette Fox told me about her visit.”

Colette Fox; “The main principle, I would say, of the four days was to learn about Shoku-Iku, which is this Japanese principle of a holistic approach to food and nutrition education. I came away thinking this is the gold standard. Each school has a nutritionist and school lunch is not just a lunch, it’s one of the lessons of the day. So every day, this trained, qualified nutritionist who’s prepared and planned all of the meals perfectly, they give a two-minute nutrition lesson. There’s one meal, that’s it. Nothing processed, everything as local as possible. Once the food is prepared, the children, whether they’re 5 years old, 10 years old, go into the kitchen and collect the big pots of food and carry them into their classrooms. They wash their hands, they put little hats on and overalls and face masks and they take it in turns to serve the food. They have lots of separate little bowls, so you have your rice and your miso soup and vegetables and your protein. There was a real focus on not wasting food. They had this kind of gratitude for the food and the value of it.

In each classroom every day they will have a poster which has a little drawing of what the meal will be that day. And then it breaks it down, so today’s ingredients are divided into three food groups, so they have the yellow food group, which is your energy source, essentially your carbohydrates, you’ve got things like your rice, some oil, any sugar, rice powder, that kind of thing, then you have your red group, which is bodybuilding foods, and that is your fried tofu, fish cake, shrimp, milk. They all fit within there. That’s your protein group, and then the green group are your body protecting foods, which I love, and these are all your vegetables. The day I was there, we had Japanese radish, bean sprouts, pickled ginger, carrot, bok choy, cabbage, green onions, Japanese spinach, loads of veg.”

Presenter; “So how many of you were there from? There was a group of 400. How many people were there from the UK?”

Colette Fox; “Only me. I was the only person which I was quite surprised at.The Global Child Nutrition Foundation, who is the organisation that organised this forum every two years, one of their key roles is to organise a survey. Every two years they send out a standard survey to every country in the world, the government, to understand how school feeding works in each country, and over time, every two years, they can see what’s shifting and what’s changing. And unfortunately, the UK hasn’t participated in that survey. Many countries around the world have, and it’s such a valuable resource as well for me, I look at that information all the time, but unfortunately, we don’t have it for the UK.”

Organic farmers, NGOs (such as RSPB and the National Trust), and organic federations (such as The English Organic Forum), are calling for the English Organic Action Plan promised by Defra, to be released as soon as possible.

Read; Farming Minister visits Riverford as calls for an Organic Action Plan for England gain traction, Wicked Leeks, 11 June 2026

‘UK Gov Farming Organics Politics;

Yesterday (June 10 2026, former) Farming Minister, Dame Angela Eagle, visited Riverford’s organic farm and packing facility at Sacrewell near Peterborough to meet farmers and representatives from across the organic sector and discuss scaling up organic production and strengthening supply chains to meet increasing consumer demand.

At such a volatile time for global markets, and with an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, organic offers some hope. Most organic farmers (85%) report sales either growing or staying stable with less than 10% experiencing a sales drop, according to a farmer survey conducted as part of this year’s Organic Market Report, compiled by Soil Association Certification.

Rob Haward, CEO of Riverford, said; “British farmers are facing growing pressure from climate volatility, rising costs and supply chain disruption. Organic farming can help strengthen resilience because it builds fertility in the soil rather than relying on synthetic fertilisers and chemicals, and supports healthier, more diverse farming systems. At Riverford, we’ve farmed organically for 40 years because it offers something straightforward: strict standards, full transparency and farming that works with nature, not against it.”

As previously reported by Wicked Leeks, the organic market in the UK continues to grow, reaching £3.9bn last year, a 4.2% year-on-year increase. Yet this progress is not reflected in organic farmland in England, which remains static at around 3% with much of the demand being met by imports.

This sharply contrasts with devolved nations that have implemented clear strategies that support organic conversion and production. Conversations included how this expansion can be replicated in England in the coming years.

The discussions form part of ongoing discussion between Government and the organic sector as work continues on the future of organic farming policy in England.

Sector representatives discussed how future policy could help respond to the vulnerability of food systems exposed by recent global events, while strengthening domestic processing and distribution capacity, and improving access to organic food through public procurement and retail supply chains.’

A few days later Angela Eagle was reshuffled to another department. Will Steve Morgan, her successor, who has no farming background or experience, honour Angela Eagle’s promise to publish the Organic Action Plan?

Listen; Change of Defra Farming Minister, BBC Farming Today, 18 June 2026

Presenter; “It was announced late last Friday that Angela Eagle, the Farming Minister, was flying off to the Home Office in the reshuffle prompted by the resignation of Defence Minister John Healey. Angela Eagle had only been in post for nine months. Stephen Morgan, her replacement, the MP for Portsmouth South, is the eighth farming minister in England in just 10 years. I asked Philip Case, chief reporter at the Farmers Weekly, how disruptive ministerial changes can be.”

Philip Case; “Essentially, what happens is the ministers build up this knowledge over say nine, ten months, and it takes them a while to learn the brief and then all of a sudden they’re gone and somebody else comes in, somebody else has to learn about the brief. And it is quite a steep learning curve. So farmers feel that they’re banging their heads on the wall all the time. They’re meeting these new people. It takes them a while to really get up to speed. And let’s be honest about it, food and farming, environmental issues, they’re really difficult policies to get your head around. Farming is full of specialist areas. People think that farming is a very simple sector. It isn’t. It’s becoming one of the most technologically advanced industries in the country. And if you’re a new minister coming into this situation there’s an awful lot to get your head around.”

Presenter; “I mean, it was announced late last Friday that Angela Eagle was being shifted. How’s it gone down with farmers?”

Philip Case; “Yes, so it did come out of the blue, as you say, and there’s been some frustration and it comes at a time when there are key policies in play. We’ve got the rollout of the Sustainable Farming Incentive for 2026, which is due to open for applications on 30 June. There’s also a wider debate within farming at the moment on land use and the environment versus food and energy production. DEFRA have been telling the industry that they want to forge a new partnership with farmers. And this comes after what can only be described as a series of disastrous farming policies, none more so than the IHT or inheritance tax reforms for farming. There’s also the pause and uncertainty which we saw on the Sustainable Farming Incentive Scheme last year. So, yes, the new Minister comes in at a really difficult moment.”

Presenter; “And the new face is Stephen Morgan. What do we know about him?”

Philip Case; “Yeah, good question. Well, I’d be lying if I said I knew a great deal about him before he was given this post. He previously worked in local government in areas such as education, defence procurement, rail, and he represents a coastal constituency with some maritime and port related interests. He says that his priorities include driving a green economy and supporting rural and coastal communities. However, there is very little evidence that he has any farming background whatsoever.”

As housing is so expensive, Landworkers Alliance is calling for easier planning rules to allow low-impact housing for small producers. Due to the price of local accommodation, we house all the growers on my 1.7 acre walled garden local food venture, Forbidden Fruit and Veg, and still lose money!

Read; LWA calls for amendment to England’s National Planning Policy to support low-impact housing for landworkers, Landworkers’ Alliance, 22 June 2026

‘In England, to gain permission to live on a farm you ultimately need to meet two essential criteria: proving a ‘functional need’ to live on the land, and proving that your business is financially viable.

Despite the odds being stacked against them, so many of our members are already running successful businesses and feeding their communities with fresh, local and ecologically produced food. However, the current planning system fails to recognise the complexities and nuances of the operations and enterprises they are running.

Permissions for infrastructure such as barns, packing sheds and polytunnels are inconsistent, and “functional” or “financial‑need” tests seldom reflect the realities of smaller, diversified, start-up or cooperatively run businesses.’

As script writer for the Archers, for decades Graham Harvey has been spreading the word about the need to value our family farmers.

Watch; Call to the Land, Graham Harvey, 2 June 2026

‘Graham joins us to talk about his lifetime reporting on Agriculture from a journalist with the Farmers Weekly, to agriculture editor and script writer for the Archers radio show (The longest running radio show in the world). He also talks about his many books and publications and what shaped his view of agriculture having a front row seat to the green revolution as it happened.’

Graham Harvey; “I just have to say, ‘The Killing of the Countryside’, which was my first book in which I got a lot of flack from the industry over, was very much a defence of family farms and I saw it under attack. I worked on Farmers Weekly when the Green Revolution was happening, and basically what I was seeing was the corporatisation of agriculture and essentially the taking over of agriculture by the chemical industry, the fertiliser industry. My education in agriculture to that point had been around the mixed farming system, which I saw as essentially a sustainable system. You could maintain fertility over decades without any loss and farmers were rewarded for doing the job of maintaining fertility. And somehow, the tragedy I think, was in the Green Revolution farming abrogated that responsibility for fertility to the fertiliser companies and basically lost their role as the wealth creators of the countryside and handed it over to someone else, which I do think was a tragedy.”

Looks like an excellent film – worth finding your local screening.

Watch; Cotswolds; Fields and Folk, Leaping Fox Films, July-September 2026

‘Through the voices of farmers, historians, conservationists, and local people, the film reveals how centuries of working the land have shaped the hills, fields, and villages we see today. As the seasons turn, it explores the challenges facing rural life — from changing farming practices to environmental pressures — while celebrating those who are working to care for the land and keep its traditions alive.’

Toxic chemicals sprayed onto coffee trees injure the health of both coffee workers and consumers. To avoid the risk of being poisoned by contaminated coffee and keep the land and growers healthy, buy Organic.

Read; A wake-up call for coffee’s chemical pesticide dependency, Wicked Leeks, 25 June 2026

David Burrows PAN UK, together with Coffee Watch, a non-profit watchdog, Inkota-network, a non-profit focused on poverty and hunger, and Deutsche Umwelthilfe (Environmental Action Germany) used scientific literature, government data, and field research across Brazil, Vietnam, Kenya, Colombia, and other major producing regions to unpack the shady world of pesticide use in coffee production.

Their report shows coffee drinkers are being exposed to highly toxic pesticides that are banned in many countries. “Every fifth cup we drink is likely tainted by poison residues,” the report reads, and “many samples contain multiple residues simultaneously, forming a ‘toxic cocktail'”.

These include chemicals linked to cancer, neurotoxicity, reproductive harm, endocrine disruption, and catastrophic biodiversity loss.In fact, pesticides banned in the EU continue to be exported to these coffee-producing countries where regulation and legal oversight is weaker. Coffee grown using these chemicals is then legally imported back into consuming countries, like the UK – the so-called chemical boomerang effect.

However, it is coffee farmers rather than drinkers who bear the heaviest burden when it comes to the morning brew.’

The chemical boomerang effect is all too common.

Read; Why we are calling on Sainsbury’s to ban paraquat, Pesticide Action Network, 17 June 2026

‘Farmworkers around the world are being put at risk due to the use of paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide (weedkiller). We’re calling on the UK’s second largest supermarket, Sainsbury’s, to end  the use of paraquat in its global supply chains.

Paraquat is responsible for poisoning thousands of farmworkers around the world. Repeated long-term exposure to paraquat has also been linked to chronic health conditions, most notably Parkinson’s disease.’

‘As a result, over 70 countries around the world have banned paraquat. Despite the UK banning this herbicide in 2007, Sainsbury’s continues to allow it to be used in its global supply chains.’

Though not proven to be either safe or effective, the government has mandated that all wholemeal flour must have folic acid added from December 2026. Beware, many flour producers have already started adding it.

Watch; They are contaminating our food, Dr John Campbell, 30 Jun 2026

Dr Claire Craig; “So the law has changed in the UK, and from December 2026, it will be mandated that all non wholemeal flour, which means all white flour, imported or organic, and brown flour. I didn’t realise this, but brown as well, has to have the drug folic acid put into it at source. And it’s already started happening because people, companies, need time to kind of get their packaging up to speed and their processes up to speed. So they’ve been given this lead in time and lots of them are already doing it, and then from that date, they have to do it by law.”

Dr John Campbell; “Tim, this is going to mean that everyone’s going to be essentially force fed artificial folic acid, because folic acid is not the natural vitamin, is it? This outrageous, isn’t it?”

Dr Tim Kelly; “Yeah, exactly. It’s a drug. So there’s no doubt about it, a drug is going to be put in the food supply. And this is about informed consent, because when we’re in medical school, we get told about conformed consent and there’s not informed consent happening. So something needs to be done.”

Dr John Campbell; “Absolutely, just everyone’s going to be forced. In the States, this is already very common, isn’t it, Claire? A lot of folic acid fortifications.”

Dr Claire Craig; “That’s right. So this has been going on in the states since 1998, a really, really long time. I think they’ve seen the consequences of it, but it hasn’t necessarily been measured properly. And so that’s a really big problem with this whole policy, is that the evidence around measuring risk and benefit is inadequate. And once you get into a population level of doing things, measuring becomes really hard because you need to have a control group to get a proper measurement and you lose your control group once you’re drugging the whole population. But despite that, the evidence that does exist is good enough to say that the story that’s being presented around benefits is not true and that the story that’s presented around safety is really not true.”

You can sign Claire’s petition HERE

‘We call on the Government to stop the fortification of flour with synthetic folic acid. Folic acid is a medicine not a food. We believe it is unethical to mass medicate the entire population without their knowledge or consent in the hope that a minority group of people might see a benefit.

The NHS website lists sections of the population (including people with cancer, a stent or low vitamin B12 levels) who should avoid folic acid exposure because of possible detrimental health impacts. Even if these people are aware of the issue, it is becoming harder to avoid as wholemeal and gluten free products are voluntarily adding folic acid.’

The SFI (Sustainable Farming Incentive) for farmers in England will soon reopen, initially for farmers with less than 50 hectares or who don’t have an existing agri-environment program. The computer system is being reprogrammed to allow existing agreement holders to re-apply in September before their agreement expires. With the funding only for farms over 3 hectares, there are still no subsidies for veg ventures like my 1.7 acre walled garden venture, Forbidden Fruit and Veg. On our local Hungry Growers WhatsApp group there is a helpful discussion for ventures under 3 hectares.

“I think there’s a work around for growers under 3 hectares to apply for SFI. It takes work and organisation and political will, but I think it could be possible. A local group of growers could form a consortium (= a group of individual entities such as businesses or organisations, working together) to get an SBI (single business identifier, this is what you need to get an RPA account) number registered to the consortium. Then they can all register their land parcels collectively to that shared SBI to reach above 3 hectares, and then apply for SFI. It’s worth thinking about whether the consortium is formal (it’s own legal entity) or informal (a friendly group), but there will be one registered bank account to the RPA account”

Read; SFI26: scheme rules and guidance, DEFRA, 17 June 2026

Animals in factory farms need routine antibiotics just to keep them alive in the overcrowded stressful and contagious conditions. Animals kept outside with adequate space and sunlight hardly ever get sick and certainly do not need antibiotics routinely. To protect the effectiveness of antibiotics to cure human diseases, avoid meat from factory farms and only buy meat labelled outdoor bred, pasture raised, free range or best of all, Organic.

Read; Antibiotics use in livestock could rise by a third in next 15 years, UN report warns, The Guardian, 3rd June 2026

‘A report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation published on Wednesday says a continuation of current trends would result in more than 143,000 tonnes of antimicrobials being administered to livestock annually by 2040, a 30% increase from 2019 and surpassing the previous peak of 118,000-130,000 tonnes in 2013.’

Fred Price farms with nature, using mixed herbal leys and livestock grazing to enrich and nourish soils, saving on rising fertiliser costs and producing high quality meat from animals kept outside in the fresh air and sunshine. Watch the two films we, at Farms not Factories, made a few years ago with Fred and chefs that buy his meat, here and here.

Watch; He Changed How His Farm Works… And It Paid Off, Compassion in World Farming, 12 May 2026

“After years of increasing yields, costs, and pressure, this farm hit a breaking point. So Fred Price did something different. Gothelney has been transformed from a struggling intensive farm to a thriving regenerative one. When Fred Price inherited a farm that was vulnerable to market shocks and rising fertiliser costs, he looked for a better way. Now pigs are kept outside all year-round as part of a mob-grazing rotation that allows pastures to recover and herbs to seed.

Fred rebuilt the system from the ground up: Healthier soils, Pigs outdoors all year Crops grown together, not separately – The result? A farm that works with nature, not against it.”

At Cereals 26, the arable farm show at Diddly Squat (Clarkson’s) farm earlier this month, farmers complained that the rising cost of fertiliser and diesel isn’t reflected in an increase in the price paid to farmers by their supermarket buyers. The Big Ag-captured NFU is of course asking for government to subsidise petrochemical inputs whereas a better policy would be to give financial support to help farmers  transition to chemical-free farming. The second part of the program transcript below shows that certain seed varieties grow well without fertiliser.

Listen; BBC Farming Today, 13 June 2026

Presenter; “Well, it has been something of a tricky year so far for arable farmers. Prices of energy and fertiliser are up largely because of the conflict in the Middle East, but the prices they’re paid for their crops are not. And we’ve had another very dry spring. So how are farmers here feeling about it all?”

Farmer; “It’s been tough. Hopefully it’s going to get a bit better, now we’ve had a bit of rain, looking forward to harvest, hopefully some better prices.”

Farmer; “Very, very difficult. Obviously all the input costs, fuel and spray, chemicals and fertilisers just kept going up and up and up.”

Presenter; “Are you expecting to make money this year?”

Farmer; “I wouldn’t imagine we will.”

Presenter; “What are you thinking about planting when it comes to autumn planting? Because some farmers are saying they might not bother.”

Farmer; ” I’m even thinking that. It’s a massive risk to put winter crops in again”

Farmer; “It’s been a challenge. It’s a drought regularly in the spring, globalised market, so fertiliser, fuel, labour… I’m not 100% sure whether the smaller farmers in arable will continue because they just physically can’t.”

Presenter; “Some of the farmers here at Cereals. Well, the National Farmers Union has launched its fertiliser resilience plan here at the show. Their president is Tom Bradshaw.”

Tom Bradshaw; “Well, everything that’s going on down in Iran and the Middle East is putting a real focus onto fertiliser. There’s a real question mark whether UK farmers can afford to buy fertiliser at the price that it might be over the next year. So we’re asking our government to make sure that UK farmers can continue to produce food for 70 million people.”

Presenter; “Exactly what do you want them to do?”

Tom Bradshaw; “If the fertiliser price is above a trigger, then we’ve seen a lot of support coming out of EU countries and other countries around the world, Australia, America. Above £500 a tonne for ammonium nitrate we believe the government should help support the availability of that and the price of that product.”

Presenter; “But fundamentally you’re asking taxpayers to help you buy fertiliser. It’s a business decision, surely?”

Tom Bradshaw; “Well, it is a business decision, but it would also restrict food price inflation. There’s a real danger globally. Half the calories are produced because of nitrogen fertiliser. If we don’t have access to that product around the world, then the implications for global food production are very severe. That will have knock- on implications in the UK.”

Presenter; “And what is it at the moment?”

Tom Bradshaw; “Ammonium nitrate today is just under £500 a tonne. Before the start of the conflict, it would have been well below £400 a tonne. So farmers are already absorbing a lot of cost increase here. We’re carrying a lot of the risk and we’re saying to government, we need to share that risk so we can continue to afford producing the country’s food.”

Presenter; “We’ve been talking to farmers here today and obviously they acknowledge this is a very challenging year. If you don’t get this help from the government, what do you think will happen?”

Tom Bradshaw; “I think there will be farmers and growers around the country that are taking decisions to produce less crops, to produce less food, because they cannot carry the risk. We don’t have any support mechanisms from the UK government anymore. We have public money for public goods. We are incredibly exposed to a global market. We don’t produce any fertiliser from raw ingredients here. And we have to look to the government now to say, how can we make sure that it’s worth farmers taking the risk to continue producing food?”

Presenter; “Are you over-egging this? Are you just scaremongering?”

Tom Bradshaw; “No, we’re not over-egging it at all. Unfortunately, the grain markets haven’t responded, so the price ratio between the value of the grain we’re producing versus the fertiliser price is really out of kilter. With the Ukraine war, grain markets rose steeply, so it was still affordable. The danger today is that it’s not affordable for UK growers, and that creates an inflationary impact right the way through the food supply chain. So the government can help avoid some of that inflation by making sure we continue to produce here.”

Presenter; “Tom Bradshaw there from the National Farmers Union. Well, there is a lot of talk about farm fertiliser costs here at Cereals this year, but also a lot of talk about how farmers can bring the general cost of growing a crop down. Now, I’ve made my way over to one of the trial plot areas. This, I suppose, is what makes this show so unique. Everywhere you look, there are little patches of crops, experimental crops, new varieties. And this is a really interesting experiment. So I’m in some wheat and this first section, has been treated with high inputs, that’s a lot of fungicide to keep the disease down. This middle one here, which is a little bit more gappy, had a low input. And then the one on the end, which is extremely gappy with a lot of dead leaves, hardly any green leaves on it at all, is untreated with fungicide. Now, this is all part of an experiment organised by Ceres Rural. With me is their managing partner, Charlie Ireland, probably better known as Cheerful Charlie from Clarkson’s Farm, the man who brings the bad news, generally speaking. Charlie, what was the idea behind this set of plots?”

Charlie Ireland ; “These are the Diddly Squat trials. They’re varieties that we have grown on the farm, particularly the milling varieties, which a lot of people know, but then we’ve added some feed varieties which we don’t necessarily grow here. We’re trying to demonstrate how the plant can help the farmer. Can you choose some varieties that are lower risk because they basically require potentially less inputs during the growing season. Why is that important? Well, the cost of growing these crops per hectare has just escalated year on year on year. We know fertiliser has gone up. You probably aren’t going to save much fertiliser in these trials, but you could save 50, 60, 70 pounds a hectare on fungicide inputs, which may pay for that extra fertiliser, so if you’re going to have to pay it in fertiliser, can you save it somewhere else in the growing programme?”

Presenter; “Can you? Because we’re looking at the crops in front of us and there is quite a big difference between high input and untreated.”

Charlie Ireland; ” …depending on which variety you choose. You can see in a couple of them that the difference between a high input and an untreated is absolutely stark. The low input, you’re probably not that happy with for this variety, but if we move to the next variety just behind it, actually, that variety has fared much better. What we’re trying to demonstrate is that actually some varieties have a natural resistance to some of those diseases. They help the grower more, whereas other varieties might be higher yielding on paper, but that requires a lot higher input. Now, it’s the net margin we’re more interested in than necessarily the gross output.”

Presenter; “Because it’s not about yield, it’s about profit.”

Charlie Ireland; “Exactly. This is actually showing the bottom line, what is the most profitable way of growing these crops. And because of the risk in the amount of money you need to spend, can you reduce that? Reduce the risk on farm? There is no cushion anymore now the BPS (The Basic Payment Scheme subsidy) is gone.”

ffinlo Costain and Martin Lines discuss the government’s newly published 25-year Farming Roadmap. Although there are some recommendations that would benefit for soil and wildlife, the emphasis is still on global trade rather than ‘grow here to sell here’, and on the quantity of food produced rather than its  nutritional quality.

Listen; Farming Roadmap, Farm Gate, 25 June 2026

ffinlo Costain; “Was there anything that surprised you in The Roadmap, Martin?”

Martin Lines; “No, I think it’s clarity of what’s been said for a long time by this government and the previous government. So it’s not suddenly all new stuff. A bit of hesitation I have around it is quite such a focus on trade and us growing our ability to trade internationally. We do import and export, we’ve got to have a balance that’s food security making that market work. But I have a hesitation that if we’re going to be focusing on selling our best quality stuff to international markets, do we import poor quality stuff that harms international landscapes and how does that work? So how do international trade standards come together? But I think we need that clarity of what the government wants to reward and how they want to make the market work. We know many of our food industries are extracting products from our landscape and leaving harm in our landscapes and that transition of joining up and we know data and standards are coming down the line and we’re going to have to be more data aware and harmonise that data to demonstrate good practice on farms. So I think it’s overall a really good document that gives clarity to farmers. We just now need to communicate it to farmers and the wider industry and build those blocks into it over not just this Parliament, but over the next 10 to 20 years.”

ffinlo Costain; “….There is a slight concern for me around reliance on trade and build up of internationalism. Now, internationalism is a good thing in all kinds of ways, but when it comes to food systems, it’s a concern when actually I want to see much more regionalisation of food systems. I want to see much more food produced within a landscape that’s then being sold within a landscape rather than essentially becoming a commodity that then increases the risk……..”

Martin Lines; “…. I often talk about nutritional security, not just food security, because we want to feed people healthily and meet their nutritional needs from as much of our landscape as possible in the UK. My worry is if we talk about the opportunity of exports, we continue to push our landscape to do more than it needs to do to feed us and have flexibility. We need to be using less pesticides and fossil fuel-based fertilisers and we have all the land we need to feed everybody. That does mean we probably end up feeding a lot less animals and a lot less engines out of energy crops and other things. So it’s that regionalisation that supplies security to the nation, being able to feed itself when it needs to in a time of emergency, but also focuses on delivering the best outcomes from our landscape.”

If we took food out of the global food economy and focused on feeding the UK in symbiosis with nature, there would be room to protect our precious horses on the moors.

Petition; Dartmoor’s Hill Ponies face extinction. They need YOUR help now, change.org, June 2026

‘Dartmoor stands to lose up to 90% of its iconic semi-wild pony herds thanks to new grazing contracts drawn up by Natural England, which could come into force as early as the end of 2026.

In the newly negotiated contracts, with drastic reductions in recommended numbers of grazing animals, ponies are included alongside cattle and sheep in total numbers of livestock permitted. This means that ponies will end up competing with cattle and sheep for limited grazing “space” under the new scheme. Commoners will be forced to remove ponies to maximise the number of more commercially viable animals that they will be allowed to graze.

Ponies are NOT the problem: they are the solution that can help halt and reverse the decline of biodiversity on Dartmoor. Read about the ponies here and find out how amazing they are! https://www.wildtowonderful.org/

Natural England’s proposals are intended to protect Dartmoor’s natural habitats and biodiversity. But removing ponies threatens the very biodiversity Natural England are seeking to protect.

In vast areas of Dartmoor, invasive Molinia grass is taking over, choking out native plants and creating a barren monoculture. Ponies eat Molinia grass. The unique way that they graze clears spaces to allow native plant species to recover and thrive, bringing a wealth of invertebrate species with them.

More ponies, not fewer, are needed on Dartmoor!

Rare and endangered

Dartmoor’s semi-wild hill ponies are recognised as rare and endangered, and should be protected as such.In the past 20 years, thousands of ponies have been lost from Dartmoor.The current population of fewer than 1000 breeding mares is barely enough to maintain their rare and ancient gene pool, which is of value to the global equine species.

Reducing pony numbers further means that the population will no longer be genetically viable and will effectively become extinct.

Natural England is failing Dartmoor

Until now, Dartmoor’s remaining Hill Ponies have been afforded some protection by being excluded from recommended livestock grazing quotas on Dartmoor.

Now, the very body that exists to protect and enhance England’s wild spaces and the nature that they support is making decisions that go against scientific evidence and will be devastating for the Dartmoor Hill Pony AND Dartmoor’s ecology.’

‘Come along to the Soil Association’s Organic Producers Board regional meeting and farm walk to discuss challenges facing your business, hear about current priorities and help shape how the Soil Association supports all farmers and growers in the future. All are welcome. With Bore Place’s Anna Bullen, our Chief Executive Helen Browning and Director of Farming Katrin Hochberg.

Attend; Soil Association Meeting, 16 July 2026

Overview – Soil Association’s Organic Producers Board (OPB) invites you to join us for a regional meeting and farm walk in Kent

Who should attend? Everyone is welcome—whether you are Soil Association certified, certified with another body, or not certified at all. Feel free to bring family, friends, and neighbours.

Directions: Bore Place, Bore Place Road, Chiddingstone, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 7AR

Thursday 16 July • 11 AM – 2:30 PM

About the farm – The event will be hosted at Commonwork Farm on the Bore Place Estate, a 500 acre organic farm in Kent. They combine organic land management with programmes that support learning, wellbeing, and connection with nature. The farm currently hosts grazing livestock, part of a diverse business model designed to support nature recovery and build community resilience. Through their charitable work, they provide education for children and young people, opportunities for families and people with additional needs, and programmes that improve access to nature and green spaces.

The farm walk will be hosted by Anna Bullen, Chief Executive, Bore Place.’

This webinar is designed to help farmers move beyond abstract carbon terminology and translate Scope 3 emissions into practical, on-farm decisions. Topics include making effective use of slurry, manure and legumes and exploring ways to reduce reliance on bought-in nitrogen.

Online Event; Lower Costs, Lower Carbon: Practical Nutrient Use, Soil Association, 14 July 2026

‘Tuesday 14 July • 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM GMT+1

Overview: Join this short webinar for practical ideas on reducing reliance on bought in nitrogen, improving soil health, and better nutrient decisions

There are lots of discussions around Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions from nutrient inputs, but for most farmers, the real questions are:

How do I keep costs under control?
How do I reduce reliance on bought in nitrogen?
What can I realistically do on farm now?

With fertiliser markets volatile on price and availability, many businesses are looking for ways to become more efficient and less exposed to risk. For many farms, bought in nutrients are not only a major source of emissions, but also one of the biggest input costs and vulnerabilities.

This webinar focuses on practical steps you can take now to build a system that is lower cost, lower risk, and lower emissions.

Join Soil Association Farming Advisor Karen Fisher and guest speaker Will Marris (Terra Farmers) for a discussion on:

Improving nutrient efficiency through better soil health
Smarter planning and decision-making
Making the most of slurry, manure, legumes and on-farm resources
Reducing reliance on bought-in nitrogen
Exploring emerging lower-emission nutrient options

We will also reflect on how organic farming has decades of practical experience using many of these approaches.’

Join Webinar, Marketing Organic: What You Can Say, 14 July 2026

‘Date & Time; Jul 14, 2026 11:00 AM in London

Description: Join Niamh Noone, Head of Marketing & Communications at Soil Association Certification, for the relaunch of our Marketing Organic: What You Can Say guide.

The guide is a robust set of statements around all elements of organic production to help you communicate the benefits of organic with confidence to your customers and retailers. The webinar will reintroduce the booklet and how to use it regarding new green claims legislations.

The webinar will also include:
• an update on our ‘brand organic’ proposition
• plans for this year’s Organic September and how to get involved
• long-term strategy for Organic September up to 2030
• an update on the Best of Organic Market (BOOM) Awards 2028′

Hearing about revitalising living soil is fascinating.

Listen; SOIL: Rewilding the Underground, Farmerama, 28 June 2026

‘Hello, and welcome to Farmerama. Today, we’re sharing an episode from our friends in Australia. SOIL: Rewilding the Underground is a 6-part documentary podcast that follows the farmers, scientists, Indigenous custodians and communities who are turning degraded dirt back into living soil. We’re sharing episode one, which traces our relationship with soil over millennia, to understand how humanity impacts the living, breathing universe of soil hidden beneath our feet, and the role that we play in their ecosystems. The series is told by Freya Mulvey, a lawyer and environmental enthusiast.’

For food security, farming needs to be taken out of the global trading system and re localised.

watch; Gustaf Skarsgård & Helena Norberg-Hodge – The Real Economy, 27 May 2026

Gustaf Skarsgård; “What specifically about the economic system is so destructive and counter nature and counter human?”

Helena Norberg-Hodge; “I would say that fundamentally the problem is that this system imposed biological and human monoculture by allowing an elite to drive people away from the living world on which we all depend, drive people away from the land in their region to an urban centre, compete over artificially scarce goods and later artificially scarce money that was delivered from a global elite system. So the global trade and the global traders from the outset were a destructive force. We’re talking about in the beginning, as this system was being formed, we’re talking about slavery as part of the trade, and we’re talking about values that were clearly both misogynist and racist, and they were also anti nature. As people reacted against those values and as there were improvements, there wasn’t a rejection of the fundamentals. The fundamentals were that global elites and global trade ended up shaping local and national economies around the world. What’s so problematic about that is we’ve created a system where we don’t see the impact of what we do. Whether we are the victims at the grassroots or the CEOs and the heads of government, we’re now operating blindly and adhering to assumptions about growth, adhering to assumptions that are simply wrong. And yet we believe there’s no other way.”

‘Nature’s all there to serve us!” say tunnel vision exponents of capitalism, communism and socialism – thinking only of how to profit by the mining of its wealth. But the bounty of nature is our breadbasket, our survival lifeline.’

‘Where once soil, crops, animals, forests and rivers formed the setting of daily life and work, now bleak concrete, brick, and steel became the dominant setting…’

Read; Man as an Extension of Nature, Not a Techno Hybrid Simulation by Julian Rose, 22 June 2026

Julian Rose; ‘We humans evolved, over millions of years, from single-cell amoebae to multicellular organisms, invertebrates, vertebrates and finally to bipedal ‘Pithecanthropus Erectus’. We are therefore indisputably part of nature; traceable within a direct flow starting from the earliest formative years of the universe. Mankind has celebrated this relationship for thousands of years, taking the form of seasonal ritual expressions of thanks for its bounty and healing powers. Surviving tribal cultures still practice such ritual recognition of their dependence and interconnection with the powers of nature. Nature celebrating pagan societies predate the imposition of Christianity on the European continent, and American Indians made such rituals a central part of their lives until forced off their sacred lands by Western colonisers. In the East, spiritual recognition of the universe’s infinite power shaped entire societies, becoming integrated into the way of life of millions of ordinary people.

We humans cannot ‘stand alone’ in separation from the living environment in which we find ourselves. However, formal educational systems have instilled in us this sense of separation. A sense of superiority over the plant and animal kingdom. A belief that we are a uniquely intelligent life form having the right to exert control over nature and the natural environment, for our own ends. Out of this belief has arisen a form of inbuilt arrogance. A belligerence concerning our relationship with the multiplicity of existence. “It’s all there to serve us!” say tunnel vision exponents of capitalism, communism and socialism – thinking only of how to profit by the mining of its wealth. But the bounty of nature is our breadbasket, our survival lifeline. It nourishes more than just our physical needs, fuelling the birth of the arts as well as our spiritual aspirations. Quantum physics has made us aware that even the millions of cells that comprise the make-up of our bodies are in constant intelligent contact with each other and with the environment through which we move. All this goes to show how embedded we are with the natural environment; how we affect it and how it affects us, symbiotically. But this reality has been under attack for a long time. Its natural generosity and health-sustaining powers were seen as a threat to the world’s aspiring architects of control. To them, man’s ability to survive and thrive needed to be tied into a system of profit, top-down power, exploitation and complete ‘people management’. Through the centuries, various key historical events further cemented the power of these pernicious control agents. Outstanding, in this respect, have been the Industrial Revolution and two World Wars.

The Industrial Revolution sucked peasant farmers and artisans off the land with the promise of regular wages and greater purchasing power in the industrial cities. From this moment on, man’s relationship with nature became deeply fractured. Where once soil, crops, animals, forests and rivers formed the setting of daily life and work, now bleak concrete, brick, and steel became the dominant setting, soon etching their way into the psyche of the new arrivals, along with the coal dust and industrial pollutants irredeemably tainting the air.

Huge numbers were drafted into this new industrial phenomenon. And the countryside was drained of its best young talent and also the rituals that had welcomed the seasons, the rising and setting sun and the waxing and waning moon. Between approximately 1760 and 1840, this vast exodus from the land radically shifted the values of society. The imagination of society. The creative focus of society. The true wealth of society. In the UK, with the earlier advent of The Bank of England (1694) came the perfect top-down means of exploiting the new urban class: borrowing money at interest – usury. The impoverishment of the workers came hand in hand with the promise of “a better life” than on the land. A weekly wage packet from the factory replacing the self-sufficiency derived from the fields.

A new definition of ‘liberty’ emerged amongst the grim of industrialisation: ‘the direct ability to acquire material goods’, to adorn one’s home with decorative objects. The beginning of the modern-day allure of ‘convenience’ placated families who sold out to slavery to the bosses of the new corporations that competed with each other for cheaper raw materials and higher profits.I am sketching this passage of history in order to show how contemporary man became desensitised and alienated from nature, and how adapting to a life of mechanisation started a process that has culminated in the present surge in uptake of a virtual AI-led digital dystopia. Large-scale, centralised industrial mechanisation and extensive mechanised transport systems became the dominant landscape in an aspiration for the prize of ‘modernity’. Spurred on by a superficial propaganda regime that included mass-produced advertising, titillating posters and alluring shop windows – all to win the hearts and minds of working people and create an alien reality which usurped the diverse agricultural landscape they had left behind.

You can see why – with the advent of agrichemical industrial farming that followed – the last vestiges of a working relationship with nature has been obliterated; drowned out under a sea of toxic chemicals and ever more brutal farm machinery. So eventually ex-landed agriculturists found themselves in the ironic position of purchasing their second-hand, denatured and degraded toxic dinners from the wages of industrial slavery, having left behind their ability to earn their keep directly from the cultivation of the fruits of the land. Two World Wars simply reinforced this process of alienation. Post-war society got ‘the supermarket’ and food travelling the length and breadth of the planet – to be sold ‘cheap’ on their plastic neon-lit shelves. The new bosses of globalised corporate exploitation quickly joined arms with the bankers, and the resulting multimillionaires obscenely sprouted up to become the dominant influencers of governments the world over. By now ‘we the people’ were completely immersed in the high standing given to the god of technology. The word ‘progress’ became interpreted to mean more, faster and more convenient. So when the computer and mobile phone hit the scene, there was an immediate clamour to own such devices and live under their spell. Thus, our once tangible world became increasingly ‘virtual’. AI and the Transhuman are a direct extension of this stampede into abstraction and alienation from our agrarian roots. We have bought into our own slavery and degradation, and for most, it looks like there is no going back. But for some, and hopefully soon more, there is. And here lies the rising star of the East. Those who wish to remake their lives once again into a collaboration and celebration with their roots, to get closer to the heartbeat of our ancient earth and to breathe the sweet air of forests, lakes, rivers and seas, should act now, before the AI mind controllers sweep the next swathe of Smart hostages into their digital gulag. Even now, as our world is darkened and torn by wars, including the war on nature, instigated by psychopathic despots and greed-obsessed oligarchs, nature shows off her extraordinary resilience, blazing her expansive glory in the gardens, fields and forests where human beings retain their role as guardians of the diversity of plant and animal life.

That is where we belong if we care about reawakening, nurturing and expanding our technologically impoverished souls. We humans possess the same extraordinary resilience as that displayed by nature, but most have kept it hidden away behind a veil of indoctrinated self-doubt. So now, at this eleventh hour, it’s time to cast aside the chains of timidity and wrest back control of our destinies. And in taking this crucial step, I council you to reevaluate your present life and call on nature to be your guide in designing your great onward adventure.’

In this strange world, the greens have split between the advocates for re-localised, chemical-free farming using appropriate technology, like Helena Norberg-Hodge and Julian Rose above, and the globalist technocrats like George Monbiot that have swallowed the GMO, 3D printed gloop and NetZero Kool-Aid and who label those who advocate localising the food economy, ‘fascist’.

Watch; Can environmentalism lead to fascism? George Monbiot, 25 June 2026

George Monbiot; “There’s a very strong strand in green thinking which wants to go backwards in social terms, and it wants to undo a lot of the things that have changed and that have happened. And what I realised is that perhaps uniquely, this one movement encapsulates three very different and distinct philosophies.

Number three, as you’ll probably pick up, I’m not very sympathetic to this strand of thinking, but I’ve struck on the name of green social nostalgia. And I say social nostalgia because, frankly, most of us are ecologically nostalgic, but social nostalgia is a different matter. And there’s a very strong strand in green thinking which wants to go backwards in social terms and it wants to undo a lot of the things that have changed and that have happened. And it particularly wants to go backwards technologically. It wants to abandon new technologies, including green technologies, which it sees as a degradation of human life. It has a great deal of interest in simple technologies like scythes and axes and spinning wheels. It loves wood burning stoves and hates microwaves, even though one will kill you and the other one won’t. It loves beef and it hates microbial protein. And it’s got this strong element of rural revivalism. And rural revivalism is possibly the oldest aspect of what you could see as a modern environmental movement. And this is the idea that economies should be locally based and land based, that the town is basically a big mistake, urbanisation is a mistake. We should focus on rural life, we should be living lives closer to the land. And this idea goes back in its current form to the 1870s, but then it came back with a vengeance in the 1920s and 1930s, and it became an absolutely fundamental aspect of fascism in Britain, in Germany and Italy. And rural revivalism is still a very important aspect of fascism. You can have rural revivalism without fascism, but you can’t have fascism without rural revivalism. It’s absolutely fundamental.”

Helena says she’s shocked by Monbiot’s article, and says the difference between fascism and local, land-based economies could not be greater.

Watch; Can localisation lead to fascism? Absolutely not! Helena Norberg-Hodge, 1 July 2026

Helena Norberg-Hodge; “I was shocked and dismayed by a recent post by George Monbiot in which he drew a direct link between fascism and and local land-based economies. The difference between the two couldn’t be greater. Fascism is built on top down autocratic, centralised control and the denial of basic democratic rights. It’s maintained by force, often military force. Localisation on the other hand is about the opposite, it’s about decentralisation, reducing the power both of government and private corporations. It’s about giving local and regional communities far greater power in decision making. Under fascism authority comes in the form of a single set of rules imposed from above. Localisation by contrast is an adaptation to diversity different populations in different ecosystems giving rise to different ways of being that are aligned with the needs of both people and planet. To confuse the two is at best ill- informed, at worst an attempt to sow division. Our future clearly lies in stronger communities and a closer relationship with the living earth. That’s not fascism, it’s life.”

Three furthe recent pieces about holes in Monbiot’s thesis may be of interest:

Chris Smaje’s New Worlds to Build
Adam Calo’s Can Agriculture and Biodiversity Coexist?
Jim Thomas’ George and the Food System Dragon

Jim Thomas; “Folks from the UK (and activists from beyond) have likely heard of George Monbiot. He’s a left-wing eco-intellectual opinion leader with a weekly column in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. I recall a newsletter writer in Oxford who used to regularly refer to George as ‘the Greatest Living Englishman’. He may well be right – Personally I quite like the guy.

I mean personally as in I do know George a little bit. For some years we lived on the same street in Oxford and I used to be invited around to supper occasionally since we were two of the only people in our social set who ate meat. That’s ironic because George has since become a firebrand vegan evangelical of the most eager kind. Indeed George’s latest book – ‘Regenesis: Feeding The World Without Devouring the Planet’. – presents livestock production as one of the worst things. (I appreciate his direction of travel, but not all the specifics.) Animated by his strong conclusions about livestock George nowadays argues for replacing farming, (yes all of it- especially where animals are part of the farming mix) with high tech industrial food production. Specifically he advocates for harvesting protein from genetically engineered bacteria grown in bioreactors. He calls this ‘precision fermentation’ – a recent PR term for ‘synthetic biology’ (itself a hype term for ‘genetic engineering’). It’s the sort of sci-fi corporate technofix I have fought against my entire career.

George first flagged his bullish backing for biotech-brewed bacterial banquets by way of a slightly bizarre and bombastic episode. In early 2020 he barrelled into the Oxford Real Farming Conference (a UK agroecology gathering) to confront the assembled small farmer crowd. Accusing them of being as outdated as typewriters, he informed them that they would soon be crushed under the wheel of inevitable progress as “precision fermentation” relegated farming work to the sidelines of history – and none too soon. It was not a good way to open a constructive conversation, nor was subsequently caricaturing his audience as a braying pack of backwards-looking, pitchfork-wielding reactionaries unable to hear the new gospel. In focusing his considerable powers of intellect and communication towards addressing problems of our food system, George appeared to have decided to open his crusade by picking a fight not with agribusiness but with the food sovereignty movement. He regards their celebration of peasant and small farmer production as an impediment to the one true way. Claiming that bucolic visions of farming life hide an ecological hellscape, George provocatively declared that “The greatest threat to life on earth is Poetry”. To slay the dragon of a harmful food system, the Greatest Living Englishman decided to sidestep the peasants as allies. He instead rode alone into the food battle behind a sword and shield of science, statistics and shiny technologies.”

George Monbiot would not agree with my favorite pro-nature pro-freedom writer Paul Cudenec

Read; Understanding what we are up against by Paul Cudenec, 29 June 2026

Listen; Audio version

‘I described the other day how my contemplation of fascism, communism, industrialism and zionism had led me to define, for myself, the core principles of my own very different life-rooted philosophy, based on my love of both nature and freedom. It later occurred to me that in order to emphasise the militant side of my position (the “radicalism” in organic radicalism if you like), I could also define it in terms of what it is against. I am against imperialism, industrialism, usury, fascism, communism and zionism (including all forms of judeo-supremacism). This might generally be called an “anti-system” stance, but I have some key differences with others who hold similar views and might be placed under that same heading.

For a start, my opposition to both imperialism and zionism is not based on the notion that zionism is merely an instance of imperialism, but rather that it (or its older brother, judeo-supremacism, to be more accurate) lies at the core of modern imperialism. I also suspect that many fellow travellers would regard anti-industrialism as an optional extra, a rather unpopular position that they can choose to ignore, while remaining anti-system.

But in truth industrialism (including the arms industry, of course) is the physical manifestation of the system and the means by which it carries out its imperialism.

Any real anti-system position must, of course, necessarily embrace opposition to both fascism and communism, the two most totalitarian forms that the system has historically adopted (so far).

However, I reject any suggestion that the principal element to the system is either fascism or communism, and therefore do not favour the stand-alone binary label of either anti-fascist or anti-communist – my position is only reflected in their combination within the overall oppositional bundle. As with the positive side of my philosophy, this collection of oppositional elements is topped and united by the understanding that they are all irredeemably interconnected and are, in truth, merely aspects of my opposition to one single entity. I would suggest that it is this holistic embrace of the overall struggle in hand that we need to nurture and spread if we want to inspire real and accurately targeted resistance to the psychopathic system.’

CO2 Tunnel Vision

Neil Oliver explains how NetZero is ruining landscapes, harming wildlife, eliminating farm land and contaminating the soil with cement and heavy metals.

Listen; Neil Oliver …Im CALLING them OUT! Neil Oliver, 3 June 2026

Neil Oliver; “I talk on this channel all the time about the anti-human nature of what’s going on, the contempt for, the disregard for human life, individually and collectively, that’s all around us. And we’ve had so much evidence of a total lack of authenticity from the powerful when it comes to what they do say about us and what they do say about the natural world. I say the climate crisis is a hoax.The climate’s changing, the planet’s been getting warmer, but there’s no crisis. And the crisis, so-called, is a hoax to drive a scam that makes the rich even richer by the changes that they feel entitled to enforce upon us. But of course, you’ve only got to look a little bit about what they insist upon and what they do to see, that there’s no authenticity in it, there’s no care for the planet. I’m old enough, I can remember when Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace and so on were actually about a genuine concern for life on Earth, saving the whales from being hunted to extinction, stopping the clubbing of fur seals, the determination to draw our attention to the way in which pesticides and other chemicals were wholesale poisoning the soil to our final detriment. But all of that was hijacked somewhere along the way. You can tell there’s no authenticity about this supposed concern for the environment, for the planet. Look at the measures, the way in which we were told to say goodbye to coal and oil and gas, hydrocarbons and such like, and to contemplate the replacement with wind turbines, solar panels. You look at the reality of that. Entire landscapes are sterilised in advance of the wind turbines, those plantations of plastic windmills, each one sitting on a plug, many metres of concrete, which is one of the most toxic composites that humankind has ever come up with. Before those things are erected, the ecosystems are destroyed, the wildlife driven off and relocated, sterilised. The plantations of turbines then harvest the bird life, killing the birds. The solar panels that smother arable land, they drive away the cattle and they drive away everything else that flies or crawls or walks in that landscape, and they smother that landscape instead with solar panels that are full of heavy metals that then leach into the soil, poisoning it for all time. Land that’s been smothered by those great spreads of solar panels, it can’t be used again. It’s sterilised and poisoned. It won’t be arable land ever again. So there’s no care for the environment there, far from it. “

Read; Governments tell us to cut eating red meat to ‘save the planet’, No Farmers No Food, 4 June 2026

‘Governments tell us to cut eating red meat to ‘save the planet’ while they ram through hundreds of massive data centres that consume vast amounts of energy and water…’

NetZero really has a lot to answer for. This morning Sainsbury’s announced they were only going to sell white shelled eggs as they were better for the environment and would help them meet NetZero sooner. What they really mean is brown hens are usually larger than white ones so need more food. Just a money making ploy wrapped up in the ‘good for the environment flag’. Tom Trueman, 8th generation Devon Farmer, says the world’s gone mad!

Watch; Apparently Brown eggs are bad for the environment now, Tom Trueman, 5 June 2026

Tom Trueman; “Now, madness is obviously contagious in this country because Sainsbury’s are now declaring war on brown eggs. I kid you not, they are going to ban brown eggs in their own brand egg boxes or bringing this in within the next few years. I believe it’s going to be phasing out brown eggs by 2035 or something. Ridiculous. In an attempt to meet NetZero, you could not make this shit up. So, basically, brown eggs apparently come from bigger chickens and bigger chickens eat more food, require more space, drink more water and produce more manure. Well, obviously this apparently is bad for the environment. Not sure what batshit bonkers twat came up with this one, but yeah. Oh, my God, the world has actually gone. I want to get off the world. It’s gone mad. Please stop the world. I want to get off when they’re changing the colour of eggs because apparently they’re not environmentally friendly.”

Listen; Is carbon tunnel vision obscuring climate solutions? Farm Gate, 16 June 2026

‘ffinlo Costain talks to Dr Frédéric Leroy (Vrije University, Brussels) and Dr Jason Rowntree (Michigan State University). Frédéric and Jason’s new research paper argues that while livestock systems represent a considerable environmental challenge, anti-livestock and anti-meat perspectives over-simplify the issues, ignore regional variations, and rely on unbalanced carbon accounting. They argue that carbon tunnel vision is a threat to good climate policy.’

Dr Frédéric Leroy; ” …..Since the FAO report from 2006 when they issued ‘Livestock’s Long Shadow’, there’s been a tremendous push for intensification. So it’s all about efficiency, intensification. But by doing so you may reduce the carbon emissions, but you may have all sorts of other trade-offs. They don’t always go in the same direction. You can have issues with biodiversity and eutrophication, you name it. And then even within the carbon discussion as such, even if you isolate that one, it is much more complex than just talking about a carbon flux. In the paper you’ll find more details. But even with carbon accounting, you need to be very careful because reality is much more complex than just summing up the CO2 equivalence.”

ffinlo Costain; “Why do you think the policy around climate change and sustainability has become so single-minded? Because if we think of a real situation, if I’m crossing the road and I only look for cars and I think it’s safe to step out, but I haven’t also looked for trucks or motorised wheelchairs or bicycles or whatever else it might be on the road. Then obviously I’m still going to have an accident. And so why is it that academia has taken a real life scenario, taken this holistic world in which we live and sustainability, which is as you’ve just described, and then just decided to look at one bit of it.”

Dr Frédéric Leroy; “Well, we always focus on what we measure. So at some point in time, carbon came up as the metric and then we started looking at that metric very, very closely. And while doing so being sucked up in spreadsheets and in accounting, we tend to forget about all the other things. The more scientists live in ivory towers and don’t come out to see the actual countryside and food systems where things are happening in real time, the more you get that abstraction. Probably that places a historical reason to it. But generally speaking, humans tend to focus on what they can measure best. And then there’s another problem here as well, probably, maybe I’m speculating here, but because carbon can be measured and quantified, it can also be monetised. So it became a driver for financial schemes. And in a way, the financial approach to nature, which is an easier thing to do than more complex aspects of it, like biodiversity as an example. There’s a financial motivation in keeping that system going as well.”

The NetZero scam is laid out in this Daily Mail article with the reminder that if Reform win the election, they will scrap the targets! The rules are blatantly absurd – for example, Ed Milliband’s message to cut down on meat and milk described below should only apply to meat and milk that isn’t from CO2-neutral, pasture-fed cattle.

Read; Cut down on meat and dairy! Ed Miliband to impose stringent new climate targets despite NetZero backlash, Daily Mail, 2 June 2026

‘Families will have to cut back on meat and dairy to meet stringent new climate targets imposed by Ed Miliband. The Energy Secretary has signed up to a legally binding goal to cut the UK’s carbon emissions by 87 percent by 2040. To meet the goal, households will need to replace boilers with heat pumps, shift to electric cars and eat 25 percent less meat and a fifth less dairy. The climate target – recommended by Government advisers the Climate Change Committee (CCC) – is one of the world’s most ambitious. Mr Miliband accepted it despite Britain being responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse emissions. The agreement also comes despite a major backlash to NetZero policies by the Tories and Reform UK who have promised to abolish targets if they win power.’

There are plans to build a massive AI data centre and battery facility on food-growing land  in North Devon.

Listen; Data Centres: Devon countryside destroyed, UK Column, 1 July 2026

Mike Robinson; “Xlinks is proposing to develop a large AI data centre and battery energy storage system on greenfield land near Alverdiscott in North Devon. And now they’re calling it Valiant and they claim that Valiant would provide 1.5 GW of AI-optimised compute capacity. These are their words, the brains behind the AI models that increasingly power everyday digital life. Most of us interact, they say, with data centres hundreds of times a day, from sending an email to making a bank transaction or streaming TV. The Government treats data centres as critical national priority, on a par with airports and power stations, because they underpin essential services such as the NHS and financial systems and keep UK data managed within the UK. Now they’re saying that basically plentiful access to clean power from nearby solar and wind is there. They’re saying that Devon’s mild year-round temperatures mean that the site uses less energy and water than many other locations. They’re talking about spare, highly available capacity at the local substation. And they’re saying that it’s set away from homes. In other words, it’s in the middle of the countryside where existing trees, hills and valleys help screen the development from view. They’re saying that the campus would directly create long term high quality roles and its computing power has the potential to attract well known AI related companies, bringing further jobs and investment to the area. We’re exploring partnerships, they say, with the University of Exeter, the Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group and local training providers. Local people are the first in line for these roles and a new career pathway opens into a sector usually based in larger cities. So while they’re talking about this dedicated community benefit package, they’re not explaining how these thousands of people are going to get to the site in order to take advantage of these new jobs. So the roads network certainly is not going to be suitable and there’s basically no public transport. So how is this going to work? They don’t seem to care or worry too much about that. They are saying that environmental assessments carried out during planning will inform mitigation measures built into the proposals. So look, who is Xlinx? Well, they are basically a private equity funded renewable energy company and their main bright spark idea is to solve the climate crisis by running a 4,000 kilometre long cable from Morocco to North Devon in order to bring energy from Morocco because building wind turbines and solar panels in Morocco is environmentally friendly, as is mining and processing 4,000 kilometres worth of copper to bring that energy to the UK!!

That particular project seems to be on hold because they couldn’t get backing from the British government. But don’t worry, they have another plan because they intend to interconnect Morocco and Germany instead. Coming back to the North Devon Data Centre, they’re running four public information days over the course of July, but note the times, they clearly don’t want the working public to have any opportunity to go and meet them. And they’re making an online questionnaire available on their website on 14 July. They say, and they’re asking for public feedback by 11 August at the latest. And they’re also involved in a planning process. So that might be somewhere people want to go to make some objections.’

‘They clearly intend to do much more of this. Where is the energy going to come from to provide the electricity for these data centres?”

Charles Malet; “If they say they’re going to get it from Morocco and that seems outlandish and completely absurd, then the idea of sticking, say a solar panel project down the road would then seem more palatable or some other mechanism. And of course it shouldn’t be forgotten that the whole point of battery energy storage systems, BESS, is in effect an arbitrage scheme because it’s nothing to do with the renewable element of it. It’s all to do with being able to produce energy, store it and then sell it back onto the grid when the rate increases. So it is in effect a scam like the rest of the renewable agenda, but also the one thing that has not been dealt with at all, of the massive safety and environmental concerns about any kind of fire or incident that happens in a battery storage facility containing lithium batteries. There is no way to put out those fires. And this has been said by fire brigades up and down the land and it’s just fallen on totally deaf ears. You just use the word campus as though somehow it’s all benevolent and going to further people’s understanding of the world when actually it has the potential to destroy enormous swathes of the Devon countryside and the economy.”

Read; Scottish village to be ‘terrorised’ by 115ft data centres; LBC; 25 Jun 2026

Protests are being organised over plans to build a supersised AI data centre beside a small village in Scotland, LBC’s learned.

The ‘Cato’ site neighboring sleepy Auchtertool in Fife would be comparable with some of the world’s biggest data campuses in the likes of Nevada.

Its total power capacity of 600MW would be just 50MW less than the ‘Citadel’ there, and projections suggest it could use up to 4000GWh every year, equivalent to the energy used by half of all households in Scotland. It could also use the same amount of water every year as 239 homes.

The ILI Group behind it has indicated it would build a complex of data hall buildings – some the same height as eight double decker buses (35m) – within a proposed site the size of 100 football pitches.

That would be bigger than the entire village of just over 200 homes it would sit beside.

Spectator has a paywall but it is a deep dive into shady money going onto the CO2 scam.

Read; Ed Miliband and the shady funding of net zero, JOHN POWER AND WILLIAM ATKINSON

There is a problem with British politics. Dark money from abroad is being funnelled into our system. A complex web of interlocking charities, thinktanks, advocacy groups and campaign outfits is being bank-rolled to push a policy agenda onto the public that makes us poorer, puts us in hock to hostile powers and undermines working people. According to the left, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are puppets of such shadowy interests: Tufton Street thinktanks…’

Censorship, Surveillance, Coercion, Corruption & Blackmail

Read; Under The Western Empire You Get Punished For Having A Conscience, By Caitlin Johnstone, 13 June 2026

‘The UK has sentenced four anti-genocide activists to years in prison on terrorism charges, and the US is working to deport a prominent foreign policy analyst for criticising the war in Iran. Four members of the group Palestine Action were sentenced to a combined total of 25 years in prison on Friday for breaking into a UK weapons factory owned by Israeli company Elbit Systems in 2024 and damaging some of the genocide machinery contained therein. The judge refused to allow the activists to explain to the jury why they did what they did, and also refused to notify the jury that the defendants could receive terrorism sentences if convicted.The BBC reports that this is believed to be the first time anyone has received a terrorism sentence for property damage. Amnesty International has slammed the sentencing as “completely disproportionate” to the crime.

The UK has previously made headlines with its ridiculous classification of Palestine Action as a terrorist group, leading to mass arrests of activists who hold signs saying “I support Palestine Action”.

Meanwhile in the United States, the Trump administration is reportedly targeting foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi for his criticism of the US-Israeli war on Iran. According to zionist outlet The Free Press, the US State Department has launched an investigation into the possibility of revoking the green card status held by Parsi, an Iran-born Swedish citizen. Free Press quotes an unnamed State Department official as saying “Anyone who seeks to undermine the US we’re taking a hard look at,” which would include “people who support adversaries of ours and whose work furthers their agenda and undermines our security.”

This is a significant expansion of the Trump administration’s efforts to stomp out domestic foreign policy dissent. Previously the State Department was only working to deport unknown university students like Mahmoud Khalil for their opposition to the Gaza holocaust, while Parsi is a professional commentator who is regularly seen on CNN. It’s an escalation in much the same way the UK has moved to banning the visas of mainstream pundits like Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker for voicing criticisms of Israel. It’s a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport mainstream foreign policy experts for criticising an American war. They’re actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.

It’s the same war on the conscience that saw the empire persecute Julian Assange, crush pro-Palestine demonstrations on university campuses, investigate peace activists for bringing aid to Cuba, and dramatically ramp up the suppression of free speech to silence criticism of Israel.

In a healthy society, a person of conscience would thrive while a sociopath would be shunned and marginalised. In western society it’s the exact opposite: people of conscience are sent to prison, and sociopaths are made president of the United States. That’s what you get when you live under an empire established on and driven by sociopathic values. The agenda to dominate and control the entire human population is evil, because it can only be accomplished through nonstop war, militarism, propaganda, deception, and tyranny. That’s why the truth-tellers are branded traitors, the anti-genocide demonstrators are branded antisemites, and the peace activists are branded terrorists. We live in a backward dystopia with backward values, so the good are beaten down while the wicked rule the world.’

The former human rights lawyer, Starmer was a traitor to citizens’ rights.

Read; The Plot against Palestine Action by Jonathan Cook, 19 June 2026

‘Amnesty International warned after this week’s Court of Appeal decision upholding proscription: “The banning of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is a grave misuse of counter-terrorism powers with serious consequences for human rights. It is a huge overreach to treat direct action protest as terrorism.” It added that the decision “leaves the door wide open for governments to suppress other protest movements in the future.”

Undoubtedly, the Starmer government will be selective about how it uses this new suppressive power. For example, while followers of the far-right provocateur Tommy Robinson have been regularly found to break the law — not least in the recent race riots in the cities of Southampton and Belfast that included arson attacks on homes and injuries to police officers — it appears unlikely that those committing these kinds of crimes will be sentenced as terrorists, even though they are clearly seeking to “influence the government” to crack down harder on immigration.

Similarly, the government seems determined to make sure more than 2,000 British citizens who have recently served in Israel’s genocidal army face no consequences — including the son of Ephraim Mirvis, Britain’s Orthodox chief rabbi. These soldiers are not even being investigated, let alone arrested or charged with terrorism offences.

Indeed, the British security state appears to have no problem with the gravest violations of international law — refusing to prosecute them entirely — precisely because it is already violating such laws itself through its deep complicity in Israel’s genocide.

The authoritarianism of Starmer’s government should be terrifying in itself. But it is likely to soon lead to an even more dangerous place: His deeply unpopular Labour Party risks being ousted at the next general election by the far-right Reform Party, led by Nigel Farage.

Starmer’s abuses of Britain’s terrorism laws have paved the way for Farage and Reform to unleash a whirlwind of repression. And be sure: Like Starmer, they will frame the crackdown on the most fundamental of civil liberties as vital to protecting “national security” from the threat of “terrorism.”

4 Palestine Action protestors against genocide prosecuted;

Listen; Filton Four: Assault on Justice, UK Column News, 15 June 2026

Ben Rubin; “On Friday, the sentencing of the Filton 4, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Cameo and Fatima Rajwani, the Palestine Action activists who received sentences just over 26 years collectively for actions with a terrorist connection. It relates to their involvement in the actions on the Filton site near Bristol of Elbit Systems, which is one of Israel’s main private defence contractors. And they took part in this direct action as a result of Elbit Systems. Involvement in manufacturing weapons used to kill Palestinians ultimately, this is what they’re doing there, and you can see that they were smashing computers, drones, other military equipment and also unfortunately, did assault a police officer who ended up having his spine fractured.

This trial has been ongoing now for a couple of years. These events you can see here took place on August 6, 2024 and there have been two trials. The first trial last year effectively collapsed, a second trial took place ending earlier on this year. And it’s extraordinary for a couple of reasons. First one being that there were two trials, so the first one collapsed and then they had a second trial, so that’s extraordinary. But also Justice Johnson announced on the day of sentencing that he would be sentencing for crimes with a terrorist connection. This is only after the CPS applied on the day of sentencing on Friday to have these four young people sentenced as terrorists. So essentially he’d gone through a trial, the jury have considered the evidence, delivered a guilty verdict and then the charges have been changed, which is extraordinary, unprecedented.”

Brian Gerrish ; “It’s heading into the norm bracket. Justice is whatever the judge in a star chamber wants to enforce. This is the danger of the removal of jury trial.”

Ben Rubin; “…last year, in the original trial, Justice Johnson had to apologise to the court because he attempted to have the defence barrister Rajiv Menon, prosecuted for contempt of court for reminding the jury that they could dismiss the charges by nullification. So apparently it’s contempt of court to remind the jury of the power that they have, extraordinary.”

The Appeal court hearing reversed the previous court decision and has now made the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation lawful.

Listen; Palestine Action: Disingenuous judicial decision, UK Column News, 17 June 2026

Mike Robinson; “The Court of Appeal has ruled on Monday that the Government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was apparently lawful and proportionate. And that, as everybody will know, overturns the High Court decision made in February that had found that the Government’s proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. There were five senior judges involved in this decision. It was led by Lady Chief Justice Baroness Sue Carr. And of course, this was following Shibana Mahmood’s appeal and they concluded that the decision was a fair balance between individual rights and national security. So they characterised Palestine Action as a covert organisation operating through secret cells, rather than a transparent direct action protest group. Let me just bring the Baroness on screen here and have a look at what she said. She said “it’s a fundamental mistake to overlook the fact that Palestine Action overtly promotes unlawful violence amounting to terrorism”. She went on to say, “it is not, as claimed, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the Suffragettes, operating transparently in the open. It is a covert organisation which operates with secret cells to avoid the detection and prosecution of those using violence to destroy property and cause injury”. So as a result of all that, then, support for Palestine Action remains a terror offence. The co-founder, Huda Amori, intends to seek permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. It seemed to me that Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr was being, at the very least, disingenuous with the comparison between suggesting that this is a covert organisation that operates as a terrorist group while suggesting that the Suffragettes were somehow something different.”

Charles Malet; “I think there are two things. First of all, insinuating that secrecy is synonymous with terrorism is misleading, because that’s absolutely not to be found in the legislation. And then the other thing goes to the incredible malleability of the Terrorism Act doing what it was designed to do, which is to be able to capture anybody that the Government didn’t like the look of. I will quote from Section One of that Act because it is so important to understand how this gets used. This is symptomatic of legislation at large, not just Terrorism Act – this goes back to 2000. So Section One in this Act, ‘ Terrorism means the use or threat of action that is designed to influence the government or intimidate the public or a section of the public and that the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause, and therefore the actions that fall into any of those categories, or rather the categories of action, are serious violence against a person, serious damage to property’. Now, these are effectively what are being levelled at Palestine Action with specific regard to whether or not suffragettes would therefore be captured by this legislation had it been in place at the time. Yes, absolutely beyond question, because they would completely have committed offences, it is just a matter of whether that’s determined to be terrorism or not. Of course, because the issue here is mostly concerning criminal damage, you have to ask the question, ‘if they appeared not to have a connection to what they consider is going on in the Middle East and they were conducting the same acts of criminal damage, would they be labelled as terrorists?’ “.

Read; My latest investigation, David Miller, 24 June 2026

‘Leaked Documents Reveal UK Intelligence Operation Targeting Russia, Iran, Gaza And Beyond.

Hidden under the guise of a ‘civilian countering disinformation organisation’, British intelligence outfit MI6 has helped build a vast propaganda apparatus, leaked documents reveal. Once targeting only Russia, it has recently expanded its scope to Iran, Gaza, and beyond, as this Mintpress News investigation reveals. This investigation, based on secret leaked documents, including internal intranet pages, reveals a clandestine new propaganda unit inside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Directed by MI6 and hidden behind civilian cover, the unit exists to professionalise and expand the British state’s long-running practice of promoting disinformation under the guise of “countering disinformation”.

The operation against Russia began in 2014 through the Russian language program and its apparent successor, the Counter Disinformation and Media Development (CDMD) program. It was expanded to Ukraine after the launch of Russia’s special military operation in 2022. Iran and China were added as formal targets in 2023, with Gaza incorporated on a semi-detached basis. The leaked materials allow us to re-read what is publicly known about British government propaganda and actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The pattern is unmistakable: whenever one iteration is exposed, the secret state simply rebadges and relaunches the same operation while quietly broadening its targets.’

Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns as he faces mounting accusations of duplicity, hypocrisy and violations of international law. Yanis Varoufakis sums up his reasons for saying ‘good riddance’!

Watch; Europe’s energy scam is worse than you think – Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau, the Econoclasts, 24 June 2026

Yanis Varoufakis; “…….there is the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza. He sacrificed precious political and civil liberties in the United Kingdom by imprisoning grandmothers, priests, peaceful activists who dared support an organisation called Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions prescribed as terrorists. For doing what? For practicing the usual activist tactics, across the United Kingdom, across the decades, of trespassing to spray-paint military planes that had demonstrably aided the IDF. And to add insult to injury, Starmer, when he realised that the climate was changing regarding Palestine and Israel, he performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, but only so that to ensure that it would never happen. Starmer’s is a government that has learned nothing from the 2008 crisis. He and his Chancellor were playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the finance curse perpetrated by the City of London. Think of the manner in which they allowed the bankers to profit to the tune of more than £100 billion from quantitative tightening, throwing in for good measure, remember, he cut international aid to pretend that he’s funding military expansion, military spending, which was a trickle under the strategic defensive view. So he was doing everything in order to be ineffective and duplicitous. He has chosen to abandon principle for power every step of the way. And then once he had the power, he didn’t know what to do with it. So my point, Govkin, is that this is a man without conviction in difficult circumstances, as you described, across Europe because of the post 2008 world we live in. But it is important that he’s also a Prime Minister that offered the electorate not a shred of honesty, just the illusion, the cruel illusion of change, and I’m saying that it was cruel because he had absolutely no plan for change. So he was ethically decrepit because he had chosen consciously to abandon principle for power and then once he got power, he didn’t know what to do with it. So this is my conclusion. History will indict him. Good riddance. I say.”

Watch; ‘I emailed my MP. Police raided me at 4am’, The Crispin Flintoff Show, 21 June 2026

Claire Kerrison was advised to write to her MP (as well as the government) to stop Israel’s attacks on the flotilla taking food to Gaza. She then emailed about the ‘hunger games’ being used by US and Israeli forces in Rafah.

It wasn’t long before the police knocked on her door in the early hours of the morning and she was threatened with a two-year prison sentence.

Here you see the stark reality of Starmer’s government using the police to cover up for its complicity in war crimes.

Britain is a police state.

Read; Britain detains human rights lawyer Daniel Kovalik; Naila; Jun 30, 2026

On Saturday morning at around 11 am, U.S. human rights lawyer, professor and journalist Daniel Kovalik was detained by three counter-terror police officers at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, which allows border police to detain and question people they believe to be involved in “hostile state activity.”

Kovalik — who was visiting England for a wedding — was detained for approximately two and a half hours and interrogated extensively on his political views about “everything under the sun,” including on Israel, Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organisations Hamas and Hezbollah, the war against Iran and on China and Russia. He told Crispin Flintoff that despite the scope of questions, ultimately, “I think what they wanted is my stuff [electronic devices], that’s what they wanted and they got it.”

Kovalik was told he would be arrested if he did not co-operate with the interview or provide the passwords to his electronic devices. Officers seized his phone and laptop, took his DNA, fingerprints and photographs from nine angles, copied his bank and credit cards and rifled through his luggage. They also questioned him about a book he was carrying — a gift from a student by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories — before releasing him.

During his interview, Kovalik repeatedly informed the interrogating officers — who refused to identify themselves when asked — that he is a practising lawyer, that his electronic devices contained material protected by legal professional privilege and that he objected to their seizure. A supervising sergeant subsequently confirmed that Kovalik had properly asserted legal professional privilege but said his devices would nevertheless be retained “with intention to copy.”

Watch; US lawyer held by UK terror police on way to wedding; The Crispin Flintoff; 1 Jul 2026

‘Was this a fishing expedition for information on his client, the President of Colombia?’

Watch; BOMBSHELL! Patriot Rep. Thomas Massie confirms Washington is 99 percent scripted, Furkan Gözükara, 11 June 2026

‘BOMBSHELL! Patriot Rep. Thomas Massie confirms Washington is 99 percent scripted. He reveals massive bills are entirely written by the Deep State and corporate lobbyists. He states the Epstein Files Transparency Act is the ONLY bill in 14 years that lobbyists didn’t touch because he wrote it!’

Interviewer; “Is most of government organised in advance? Do you feel like when you say it’s a uni-party, do you feel like money runs both sides of the aisle? The votes are counted in advance, the lobbyists win the game and everybody else is really just posturing for television time?”

Thomas Massie; “It’s 99% scripted up here. The bills that do pass are written by lobbyists and special interests. The only bill I can tell you that a lobbyist didn’t touch that I’ve seen in the last 14 years was the Epstein False Transparency Act. I wrote it, it was written in my office in eight hours, I can guarantee you the lobbyists didn’t get a hold of it and nobody in the executive branch did. So many speeches are scripted. It used to be against House rules to read your speech on the floor of the House and that’s why I didn’t read my speech today. I think it’s more sincere. That’s the other thing, these are fake fights meant to separate us, red shirts versus blue shirts and it’s fake wrestling with balsa wood chairs and sugar bottles, breaking them over each other’s heads. Then I walk in with real weapon and they don’t like it when I start swinging.”

Interviewer; “Who’s writing those bills, when they write a 2,000-page bill? Where’s that coming from?”

Thomas Massie; “Honestly, it’s a combination of the deep state and the corporate interest. That’s where it’s coming from.”

Russia imposes rules to protect its citizens’ health while the US suppresses research and introduces rules to protect businesses from liability from their product’s side effects.

Watch; R F Kennedy Jr reveals that WiFi radiation causes cancer, The Eagle Flies Free, 25 June 2026

‘Robert Kennedy Jr. has just revealed that Wi-Fi radiation causes cancer…he said it on the Joe Rogan show and represents hundreds of patients who have brain tumors caused by it…The tumors are glioblastomas, one of the most lethal forms of brain cancer…Kennedy claims they always appear on the same side of the head, where the patient held the phone…But cancer isn’t even the worst effect…Kennedy claims that Wi-Fi radiation opens the blood-brain barrier, allowing all the toxins present in the body to pass into the brain tissue:

• Glyphosate from food
• Microplastics from water
• Flame retardants in furniture

The researchers who published these findings called it a “permeable brain.” The US government responded by suppressing the research and cutting off funding.

Kennedy claims that tens of thousands of studies document the danger.

Russia developed Wi-Fi radiation as a weapon. Russian schools ban mobile phones. The permitted radiation levels are a tiny fraction of those allowed in the United States.’

Robert Kennedy Jr; “I think the Wi-Fi radiation is a lot worse than people think it is. Wi-Fi radiation does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer. There’s cell phone tumours, I’m representing hundreds of people who have cell phone tumours behind the ear. It’s always on the ear that you favour with your cell phone, and we have the science. So if anybody gets this in front of a jury, it will be over.”

Listen; The real reason US Big Tech corporations fear China, Geopolitical Economy Report, 27 June 2026

Ben Norton; “When Thiel (co-founder Palantir) spoke at Stanford University, he was invited by Sam Altman. Altman has become a household name because he’s the CEO of OpenAI, which runs ChatGPT. Altman is another billionaire oligarch who has been working very closely with the US government. On the first day of Trump’s second term, Altman was invited to the White House to do a press conference praising Trump for his pro-AI policies. Sam Altman is extremely afraid of Chinese AI competitors. This is why Altman has been working closely with the US government to try to ban Chinese AI companies, claiming that supposedly they’re state controlled, which ironically, would be more accurate to use to refer to US AI companies which are working very closely with the US government. But this argument is completely absurd when China’s AI companies are releasing their models open source, they’re not in any way controlled by a government, they’re open source, ie anyone in the world can look at all of the code and run it natively on their computer. This is obviously the absurd argument that Silicon Valley is using to try to ban their AI competitors. Just like how Elon Musk successfully pressured the US government to put 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to essentially ban his Chinese competitors in the EV industry because Silicon Valley simply cannot compete with China. This is why, in October 2025, OpenAI published an open letter that it sent to the US government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, begging the US government to bail out OpenAI, to give them tons of subsidies in order to fight against ‘evil China’. They portrayed China as this crazy threat that’s going to destroy the US unless the US subsidises all these AI corporations in Silicon Valley. Soon after that, the chief financial officer, the CFO of OpenAI, said in an interview, that the company wants a federal backstop for its AI investments. Which is another way of saying that they want the US government to bail out OpenAI, which is failing right now. Now, OpenAI is still a private company. It’s talking about doing an IPO, (an initial public offering), soon to go public, but its financials right now are still private. However, the journalist Ed Zitron got access to some of the internal financials and they show that in 2024, OpenAI lost $5 billion. At the same time, OpenAI has committed to spending $1.4 trillion. Anytime someone mildly criticises Sam Altman in public, he just lashes out like a child, saying, ‘enough, stop raising questions about how we’re going to pay $1.4 trillion when we’re losing billions of dollars every year.’ Everyone knows the answer to this. It’s impossible for OpenAI to actually pay all of this. But the reason Altman gets so angry is because if you ask him this obvious question and he answers it honestly, it could potentially lead to the popping of the AI bubble. OpenAI is insisting on continuing to inflate this bubble larger and larger, based on false promises of being able to pay money that it will never make. By the way, this is why Altman is currently discussing with Donald Trump a US government bailout. And the system that exists now is the worst of both worlds.”

Ben Norton; “So what they’re saying is that ‘Western white majority civilisation’ is supposedly superior to other civilisations, and they’re primarily talking about people of colour in the global south, especially Muslims. They’re saying that they’re inferior. This is a straight up fascist manifesto being espoused by one of the most powerful corporations in the world, Palantir. When I warn that we’re seeing the rise of techno-fascism in Silicon Valley again, I am not exaggerating. Listen to the public comments of some of these billionaire oligarchs from Silicon Valley. If this is what they say publicly, imagine what they say in private. This is what was written on Twitter by Peter Diamandis. (You may be asking, who exactly is Peter Diamandis? He is a Silicon Valley oligarch, a very wealthy investor and he has a podcast in which he brings on other oligarchs like his friend Elon Musk.) This is what he wrote on Twitter, quote, “a trillion sensors in space, in the air and on the ground will allow us to know anything anywhere at any time. There will be no hiding, a good thing, humans behave better when they’re being watched.” End quote. This is the mentality of these fascist billionaire oligarchs in Silicon Valley. They want to create the most sophisticated totalitarian surveillance state in human history. They’re doing it in the name of freedom and liberty. This is the dystopian regime in the US which is enslaving its population and telling it that it’s liberating them. Obviously most Americans don’t believe this, but there are some people who do. The MAGA supporters, the Elon Musk fanboys, think that the billionaire capitalist oligarchs who are enslaving them are actually their saviours. Some Americans are the most brainwashed people on Earth. I’m not saying all Americans are, but the people who drank the Kool-Aid and believe this stuff, they absolutely are. It’s so funny seeing how these same Silicon Valley billionaire oligarchs are constantly using libertarian rhetoric and saying the government should stop intervening in the economy, and they extol the almighty free market and say that the solution to every problem is privatisation and allowing the free market to operate. Meanwhile, these same Silicon Valley oligarchs are getting billions of dollars of contracts and subsidies from the US government and they’re calling for a trillion sensors in space to monitor all human behaviour at all times, to create the most dystopian totalitarian police state ever in human history. This is what they actually want, because these Silicon Valley oligarchs don’t believe in anything. They certainly don’t believe in freedom and all of that nonsense. All they care about is maximising their wealth and becoming trillionaires like Elon Musk has accomplished now. And they’re basically buying up everything in US society. So, for instance, the right wing billionaire oligarch Larry Ellison, who was the CEO of Oracle and he’s now the executive chairman, he and his son David Ellison are buying up all of the major media outlets in the US like CNN and CBS News, to spread propaganda for big tech corporations and oligarchs and Trump. This is why a Trump advisor referred to the billionaire Larry Ellison as the shadow President of the United States. Here I want to give credit to a friend of the show, the journalist Yasha Levine, who’s been warning for many years that Silicon Valley at its heart has always been based on this fascist ideology. This idea that Silicon Valley was a bastion of freedom and libertarianism was always ridiculous marketing and propaganda. The journalist Yasha Levine published a very interesting book a decade ago now called ‘Surveillance Valley, the Secret Military History of the Internet‘. This is what Yasha Levine wrote in this book. Keep in mind, this was published back in 2018. He noted that ‘Google is one of the wealthiest and most powerful corporations in the world. Yet Google had massive contracts with the US government and it was a full-fledged military contractor, working with police departments, city governments and just about every major US intelligence and military agency. Google supplied mapping technology used by the US army in its invasion of Iraq. Google hosted data for the CIA. Google indexed the NSA’s vast intelligence databases based on mass surveillance of people around the world. Google built military robots. Google Co launched a spy satellite with the Pentagon. Google leased its cloud computing platform to help police departments predict crime.’

This is this dystopian preventive policing, predictive policing we were talking about that Palantir is now doing. And it’s not just Google. Yasha Levine pointed out that from Amazon to eBay to Facebook, most of the internet companies have grown into powerful corporations that track and profile their users while pursuing partnerships and business relationships with major US military and intelligence agencies. Yasha added that ‘we’ve been propagandised and brainwashed for decades. We’ve been told ever since the 1990s that the Internet is a liberating technology that will decentralise power, will topple bureaucracies and bring democracy and equality to the world.’ That was obviously all ridiculous propaganda. As Yasha pointed out, ‘if the Internet is truly so revolutionary, why are all these Silicon Valley companies like Google in bed with cops and spies?”

Watch; This is an EXTINCTION-LEVEL Event & Palantir Just Got EXPOSED | CIA Whistleblower Sounds the Alarm, Redacted, 26 June 2026

Intro; ‘A groundbreaking federal lawsuit has been filed against Palantir Technologies, its founder Peter Thiel, and CEO Alex Karp, alleging the company has crossed a constitutional Rubicon. The complaint accuses Palantir of deploying its powerful AI surveillance tools, normally used by the Pentagon, against the American public to monitor citizens, harvest biometric data, and censor speech. Plaintiffs claim the company is developing “synthetic intelligence” to predict human behavior, a pre-crime system that violates “cognitive liberty” by trespassing into the human mind.’

Read; BlackCore: Israel Runs Secret Avatar Army to Hijack Elections Worldwide by Freddie Ponton, Global Affairs, 13 June 2026

Most people outside France still have no idea what BlackCore is. They do not know that in March 2026 a company no one had ever heard of walked into French municipal elections, ran a professional smear operation against left‑wing, pro‑Palestinian candidates, then tried to erase its own existence as soon as investigators got close.

They do not know that BlackCore is not a troll farm or a couple of rogue consultants, but the marketing name on an industrial influence machine built out of Israeli military intelligence alumni, a Tel Aviv law office, UK shell companies, a London server and AI tools designed to manufacture social media personas and flood elections with synthetic narratives. They also do not know that the same ecosystem, on its defensive side, sells disinformation detection to Western governments and now has a former CIA director in the boardroom.

The following story is about BlackCore’s (alleged) transnational influence operations using avatar networks and disinformation, which extend beyond France to places like New York, Scotland, Angola, Togo, and likely many, many countries by the time this story is properly fleshed out. But it begins with what happened in France. It follows the trail through French state reporting, a joint inquiry by Haaretz and Libération that broke open new details, corporate records in Israel and the UK, US securities filings and the digital debris that BlackCore and its partners failed to fully clean up. It shows how a smear campaign aimed at three municipal candidates now points to a global Israeli information warfare ecosystem that touches many nations and cities around the world, the US State Department and the office of Benjamin Netanyahu.

This investigation does not just repeat what Haaretz, Libération, Reuters or Viginum have already put on the table. It adds the Sadaqah Palestine phase BlackCore used to infiltrate pro‑Palestinian circles before turning its guns on them, the Benguy escrow structure and SEC paperwork that show how real ownership can be hidden behind Afik’s law office, the Unit 8200 and Shin Bet careers that sit behind Galacticos’ avatar factory, and the mirror on the other side of the membrane where Cyabra, Cygun, Ram Ben Barak and Mike Pompeo sell detection tools that operate on the same signals as the attacks.

The first wave of coverage stayed at the surface. BlackCore was named as the firm behind anonymous websites and fake accounts targeting candidates from La France Insoumise, and Viginum, the French state service created in 2021 to monitor foreign digital interference against French interests, confirmed it was looking at a foreign operation. Then the story slid into the background. The Haaretz‑Libération work dragged it back out and into international territory, tying the operation to a technical stack in London and a cluster of companies at 103 HaHashmonaim Street in Tel Aviv.’

The above is discussed on SUNDAY WIRE: EP 599 – Three Card Monte: Trump’s ‘Iran Deal’ Hustle, Patrick Henningsen, 14 June 2026

Listen; Larry Ellison buys up media, Geopolitical Economy Report, 13 June 2026

Ben Norton; “Now Oracle controls the algorithm for TikTok in the US and it censors information that the US government doesn’t like and billionaire oligarchs don’t like. Moreover, the Ellison family runs Paramount Skydance, the media corporation. It is run by Larry Ellison’s son David Ellison. And the US government just gave Paramount the green light to buy Warner Brothers. And Warner Brothers owns CBS News and CNN. So this means that this billionaire oligarch family, this dynasty that already controls the algorithm of TikTok, is now going to control CBS News and CNN and the right wing US media outlet, the New York Post, which is owned by another conservative billionaire media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News, which is basically just state propaganda for the US regime. Well, the New York Post reported that the right wing propagandist Barry Weiss, who is already running CBS News, she’s now also going to oversee CNN to make sure that it continues to print propaganda for the US empire and its wars all around the world, including the war on Iran, which they strongly support. And of course propaganda in support of billionaire oligarchs like Larry Ellison and his favourite President Trump, who’s also a billionaire. This is why a former Trump adviser has said that Larry Ellison is the shadow president. But I would say it’s not just Ellison and it’s not just Musk either. It’s not an individual. It is the class of billionaire capitalist oligarchs, the capitalist class that’s not just a group of individuals. They constitute a class with particular economic interests and they determine US government policy in their interest against the interests of, of the working class, the vast majority of the population. The US government is an authoritarian oligarchy that serves the interest of the capitalist class. It is that simple.”

Listen; Digital Gulag: UK bans under-16 social media, UK Column News, 15 June 2026

Brian Gerrish; “Right. So one thing’s for sure, nine hours in front of a screen, that’s an issue for her parents, not the government. And if her parents are stupid enough to allow Keir Starmer to decide what their daughter can and can’t see, parents are in for big trouble.”

Ben Rubin; “The little statement at the end there, what will you do? I’ll just stare at the wall. Well, the thing is, the staring at the wall and getting bored is where all creativity comes from and actually the mobile phone use, social media use, just this constant distraction is one of the things that’s really suppressing our collective potential at the moment. So in some ways this is a good thing, but it’s not being brought to us in the correct fashion. And actually, if you were going to do this, I think that a ban on device use, not social media use, would be the best way to do it. And actually in reality should have little, if anything, to do with the state.This is a parenting issue so far as I’m concerned and I can guarantee you now that Starmer has got absolutely no interest in protecting children because, how many examples could we potentially pull out? Just one of them is the fact that when he was the Director of Public Prosecutions, he decided to reduce sentences for child sex offenders so they wouldn’t all go to prison. But apparently he now is all about helping the kiddies. And let’s not forget, this is also part of a World Economic Forum agenda. So Mike talked about this at the end of last week, London Tech Week and the introduction of AI into the lives of the the poorest children in the country. This event was delivered in collaboration with Founders Forum Group. Its run by a guy called Brent Hoberman who’s a young global leader of Economic Forum, or probably not that young anymore. He was a young Global Leader about 20 years ago. And importantly at London Tech Week, as well as Starmer and everything else that was going on, Sadiq Khan was there also. You had old Prince Billy who rolled in to give sovereign approval to the entire programme. Obviously he was there to talk about using artificial intelligence to help end homelessness, because of course that’s the best way to end homelessness is AI!”

Brian Gerrish; “‘The Royal Family are keeping us safe!.”

Read; Britain, Parents risk 5 years PRISON for opposing gender identity, Peter Imanuelsen, 29 June 2026

‘The British government has announced a new draft bill called the “Conversion Practices Bill”. Of course, the government say that this bill is designed to protect people from “abuse”. But, I took a deeper look into the wording in this bill and it is quite frankly shocking.The court can even issue a “protection order” against a parent on a PREVENTATIVE BASIS if they think the parent is “likely” to do something that violates this new bill. Read my article to the end to get the details on what this means.

Is this what is called pre crime?

Under this new bill, there is a serious concern that parents could be imprisoned (and more) if they for example tell their child that they are either male or female and certain criteria are met, which I will show you what they are.

Parents are risking up to 5 years in prison plus an UNLIMITED FINE if they are found to not follow this new law. Because this new bill is broad, you just know that woke activists will use the new laws to persecute parents that refuse to follow the woke agenda. In other words, parents that have traditional views on gender, that there is only male and female, and apply this to how they parent their children, will most certainly face risks under this new bill.’

Another authoritarian power-grab by Starmer’s disgraced government.

Listen; National Security State Threats Bill, UK Column, 24 June 2026

Charles Malet; “The reason for coming back to it quite so quickly is that it is moving on at a terrific pace. You may recall that last week, on 17 June, it was already going through its second reading in the House of Commons. Now that’s been accelerated, so it’s already had a first and second reading in both the Houses of Commons and the House of Lords. There’s no doubt that this is being pushed at what might be described as an alarming speed. Also, of course, worth noting that the news dominating the headlines of the last week or so, the Starmer-Burnham spectacle, has of course kicked this, in effect, as far as the public’s concerned, into the long grass. So, just to recap why this matters, it should really be regarded, first of all as an upgrade to the National Security Act of 2023, which contained many fairly draconian provisions of its own. But of course, this is going to sit alongside the existing terrorism legislation under the Terrorism Act. But in particular, the area that in the Terrorism act is described as proscription, therefore a body that may be deemed by the Home Office to be, in effect, banned, and that therefore any support of it incurs criminal sanctions for the person doing the supporting. Now, for the National Security State Threats Bill, or at least Act, as it looks like it will become, this is going to manifest in the designation of a body, so that the Secretary of State, the Home Secretary, will have the power to create what are described as designated bodies that are involved in foreign power threat activity. Now, the language that’s going to be used in this Act, if it becomes so, is deliberately vague in order that it may act as a catch-all, and in particular, the attention should be drawn to the offences that are going to be created, and similar again to the Terrorism Act, that there are offences of providing support for or indeed assisting such designated bodies. Of course, it’s entirely up to the Secretary of State as to which organisations or which body is in fact involved in such foreign power threat activity, and whether it’s necessary to designate the body in order to protect the safety or the interests of the United Kingdom. So the point to be made is that the threshold with regard to the designation of a body is most likely to be considerably lower than that for proscribing an organisation according to the current terrorism legislation.”

Tyranny or Revolution – Read by Eunice Wong

Read or Listen; We face a choice. Tyranny or revolution, Chris Hedges, 12 June 2026

Chris Hedges; “As social inequality has grown, so has state repression. We stand on the cusp of full-blown authoritarianism and fascism. If the Trump administration succeeds in rigging or invalidating the midterm elections, the last possible exit door within the political system will be slammed shut.

The evisceration of the rule of law at home is accompanied by the evisceration of the rule of law abroad. The US Empire is a rogue state. It issues bellicose threats to all who defy it, braying like a wild animal. It carries out “preemptive” wars and imposes sanctions on nations that are defiant. It assassinates and kidnaps foreign leaders. It abducts foreign nationals and transports them to black sites where they are tortured and sometimes murdered. It uses its navy to seize merchant vessels and resell their cargo. It bombs nations in open violation of international law. It funds and arms Israel to carry out genocide. It ignores and humiliates its allies and alienates and enrages most of the global community. This mounting oppression, advanced but not begun by Trump, means we face two stark choices. Tyranny or revolution.’

Listen; Sheriff David Hathaway, Israel Spies on US Law Enforcement, Judging Freedom, 15 June 2026

Judge Napolitano; “I want to get into Israeli spying on American law enforcement and the government’s recent murder of Nino Guerrero in Venezuela. So first some basic questions. Does the CIA spy on Americans in America?”

David Hathaway; “Yes, it’s mainly through telecommunications, email, cell phone metadata and some actual cell phone intercepts, but they definitely do. And this is facilitated by the FISA act, which is undergoing some turmoil in Congress. It’ll probably get totally reapproved, but yes they do.”

Judge Napolitano; “Does the prohibition on the CIA engaging in law enforcement and spying on Americans in America not stop them? Or they just not give a damn about the federal laws, in this case their own charter and the law which creates, which was insisted upon by the President who signed them into existence, Harry Truman?

David Hathaway; “Well, unfortunately, post 9/11, the federal agencies were scolded and they said, hey, you need to cooperate, you need to know what each other’s doing. So what that has had is a very hegemonic influence over US law enforcement and the military. And they’ve created these things like fusion centres where all telecommunication intercepts come together, both what they call the light side and the dark side. That’s the terminology in the intel community. And of course DEA is a member of the intelligence community. And I myself had a top secret SCI clearance, so that’s the clearance above top secret to receive these communication intercepts. And unfortunately, not only the CIA, but the Mossad, Israel is allowed unfettered access to this information at these fusion centres. Whenever you’re read into a top secret programme or a SCIF or an SCI programme, you are told that it’s ‘need to know’. The only people that can get the information are those that have a need to know. But with the Israelis this doesn’t apply. They are able to syphon off the raw data and use it for themselves. They’re considered friends and allies and for some reason that restriction that applies within the federal law enforcement community doesn’t apply to this foreign government.”

Judge Napolitano; ” Does MI6, the British spying agency, the British foreign spying agency, spy on the US?”.

David Hathaway; “They probably do to an extent. But every intelligence threat I have ever dealt with in my career in the federal government holding a top secret SEI clearance was always the Israelis. When I was a member of the CIWG, in the Foreign environment, that’s the counterintelligence working group that every embassy has, whenever we discovered a surveillance threat or a spy threat, it was always the Israelis. So MI6 sits formally on boards along with other US law enforcement agencies, and it exists as a formal relationship. But the raw, down and dirty spying from this country that pretends that they’re our friends is from my experience, was exclusively with the Israelis.”

Judge Napolitano; “When we emailed you the past two days to ask you if you could comment on the stories in the press about Israel spying on the White House and Mar-a-Lago and the State Department, you responded by saying, yes, of course you would and you were familiar with it. And then you told us that they regularly spy on law enforcement. Why would the Israeli government, a foreign spying agency like the Mossad, spy on the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department or the NYPD or the LAPD or the Chicago PD or some small town PD?”.

David Hathaway; “Well I hate to say, but they don’t look at us as equals. Just like Netanyahu said recently, you got to have the skill of saying no to the US, saying no to the US President. They don’t want the gravy train to stop. But like in my foreign assignments, decades working in Latin America, like we discovered, for example, an Israeli Stingray device made by Phantom Technologies, attached to the exterior wall of an embassy compound with the directional Yagi antenna sending the cell phone data to the Israeli embassy. So that type of device mimics a cell tower and it scoops up all cell phone activity in the area. So that’s one example. Like we had another, this is another CIWG incident that we dealt with. We had a foreign national working in an embassy that was an Israeli foreign national, worked in the ID department that was spiriting both printed material and electronic material out of the embassy. Both of these things were handled quietly in order to not embarrass the Israeli government, to not affect the relationship with Israel. Here in my county that I work at, this is a test platform for Elbit Systems, an Israeli company that has built 60 spy towers that collect not only video information, but electromagnetic information, radio spectrum, radar information, and Israel owns the feed, this Israeli company, Elbit Systems own owns the feed and then US agencies can pay to receive that feed,”

Judge Napolitano; “But have American presidents just sat back and allowed Israeli prime ministers to hear their phone calls and capture the keystrokes on their computers?”

David Hathaway; “Yes, I think they all assume that it’s happening. And I think the congressmen that are paid off by AIPAC are also similarly afraid that that data is out there, that there’s a dragnet where everybody’s personal communications are available, and that this stuff will surface if you don’t play ball. Like, I keep thinking there must be something really embarrassing on Trump that Israel has access to, either from US intel sources or from somebody like Epstein. And I think that that’s what keeps Trump in line, because Trump will not take guff from anybody except for Israel, except for Netanyahu. If somebody slights him, Tulsi Gabbard or Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem, they’re just gone. But he will take endless insults from Netanyahu. And Trump’s a very prideful person. And I think the only reason he takes that is he’s afraid of the consequences just like the congressmen that are paid off by AIPAC are afraid of the consequences. Somebody will find some communication that they made that can be twisted and can be used to embarrass them.”

Advocate for a free Palestine has his bank accounts frozen

Watch; Anti-zionist activist has bank accounts frozen, The Crispin Flintoff Show, 10 Jun 2026

‘Tony Greenstein, anti-zionist writer and activist, discusses having his bank accounts frozen, along with accounts linked to the Brighton Trust. He argues this is part of a wider attempt to use banking and money-laundering legislation against political opponents, particularly those supporting Palestine.’

The Canary has been de-banked by Lloyd’s  for being anti-zionist and pro-Palestine! see the Canary website article.

Listen; Debanked, Independent media under threat, UK Column News, 1 July 2026

Mike Robinson; “Pretty disturbing news with respect to The Canary and the fact it has apparently been debanked.”

Charles Malet; “This has come directly from The Canary, which put out a note on its website and on Twitter yesterday saying they’ve been debanked by Lloyds. And I’ll just read a little bit of the article that accompanied that, which is that

‘we do know that multiple other politically engaged people have suffered similar actions by other banks in recent times. It is not lost on us that powerful banks are able to restrict the financial activity of anti-zionist and pro-Palestine organisations and individuals’.

Now this is a debanking episode, but it should be absolutely regarded within the context of censorship, which of course is something that we have talked about ad-infinitum on UK Column and quite rightly so. The point I think to be made here is that whether or not this was a decision made by the bank or whether it was made by somebody else and the bank was forced to act, just demonstrates the way in which alternative independent media may be preyed upon. Therefore I think the appeal certainly to the audience is if anybody has specialist knowledge in this area and could help The Canary out with a way in which to force Lloyds bank at least into responding to them because at the moment they’re not even being told why this has happened or any process by which they may seek recourse. So it’s a really serious issue and of course could occur to absolutely any platform that’s out there doing a similar thing.’

The Canary has been debanked by Lloyds. The Canary; June 30 2026

Despite banking with them for almost a decade they are currently withholding a substantial amount of our money. We are left with barely any funds. Lloyds has not explained why it has taken this action. Despite multiple communications from us, the bank has not been forthcoming with its reasoning. The Canary is now in a financially precarious situation. We do not know when our money that Lloyds is holding will be returned. Moreover, we do not know how it will affect our ability to get another bank account in the future.

Lloyds give no explanation

We do know that multiple other politically engaged people have suffered similar actions by other banks in recent times. It is not lost on us that powerful banks are able to restrict the financial activity of anti-zionist and pro-Palestine organisations and individuals. Whilst we do not currently know the reasons behind our debanking, we cannot afford to be naive about this. It is an outrage that the Canary has been unceremoniously dropped into financial instability with no notice or explanation from Lloyds.

Independent media targeted

Our situation is a damning indictment of the treatment of independent media in this country – whereby you can be potentially ruined without recourse by banking giants like Lloyds. At this moment, we do not have enough cash to pay all our staff – again, because Lloyds is holding so much of our money. Our situation highlights just how at risk independent media is at all times. We need your support constantly. But we also need it now more than ever. If you can donate to keep the Canary afloat while we resolve our debanking crisis, then you can do so here.

Starmer, who said “I support zionism without qualification” clearly has no problem handing over our data to Palantir.

Watch; Palantir. IT’S WORSE Than You Think, Carole Cadwalladr, Double Down News, 5 June 2026

Carole Cadwalladr; “This is what they’re doing with the police at the moment, there’s a big push with police forces around the country, look just try it, try it out for free, look at our whizzi software, and thats what they did with the Met Police, they were like, look, we can root out the bad apples, we can find corrupt police officers. And I talked to a police officer who had been on the call when they announced this and they were saying your devices are going to be monitored 24 hours a day. And, yeah, I think people found that overwhelmingly creepy and disturbing.”

Richard Sanders; “I just want to go back slightly, just so people who aren’t familiar with this understand, first of all, ICE, the American immigration, deportation people who’ve been in the news so much lately now, Palantir works very closely with them, doesn’t it? In what way? How does it help ICE? “

Carole Cadwalladr; “Palantir is a critical part of the tool that ICE is using to profile and target and locate immigrants for removal in the United States. According this very good reporting. And another independent media technology outlet in the US, 404 Media who’ve been really on the case with this and they’re using data from all sorts of different sources. Like, that’s what’s happened in America, this was what DOGE was about, what we saw with DOGE was it going into all of these different government departments and taking data, and Palantir was part of the system that was being used to centralise that. So we see Palantir being used by ICE in America and then we see the US military, they are using AI to find targets to bomb in Iran.”

Richard Sanders; “This is why it’s so particularly troubling. These contracts with the NHS where we have Farage, who could quite possibly be Prime Minister in three or four years time, is planning precisely the same sort of operations against migrants. And we have Palantir inside the NHS.”

Carol Cadwalladr; “Farage and Reform have been explicit about that, of how that they would use DOGE-like tactics to go after immigrants in Britain for removal. And Palantir has explicitly said, well, they would work with any democratically elected government. So it is absolutely clear that our data could be weaponised in that way. The thing I find most alarming about this and most worrisome is that it just makes people lose trust and confidence in these systems which are so vital to us. We trust the NHS. That’s a kind of like, basis of British belief and our trust is being damaged by the association with this firm. We put our lives into the hands of the NHS. Amazing doctors and nurses and other people who work extraordinarily hard for the sake of British people, and to have our trust eroded for there to be a third party between them and us and a third party of the likes of Peter Thiel and Palantir, that is just massively, massively a problem.”

See if this is still live by end of June

Petition; FCA, cut ties with Palantir, Eko, June 2026

‘Palantir has embedded itself into the heart of the UK government, gaining access to private NHS patient data, Ministry of Defence systems and even nuclear agencies. Now it’s after a permanent contract with the UK’s financial regulator, the FCA, handling the highly sensitive financial data of millions of people. If we don’t act now, the same company that powers ICE and Israeli military surveillance will have its hands on yet another critical government agency. Palantir’s CEO has already said the quiet part out loud – he believes war crimes should be legal because they’re good for business, and admits openly that Palantir’s technology kills people.

We have an opportunity to push back, but the window is closing. The FCA decides in days – and this small agency isn’t used to being in the spotlight – so a huge public backlash could force them to cut ties with Palantir. Sign the petition, Tell the FCA – Cut ties with Palantir.

The company has become politically radioactive. The mayor of London just blocked the Met Police from working with Palantir, and Ministers are considering ending the NHS contract with the company. The political tide is already turning and our leaders are waking up to what’s at stake. Because Palantir is a US firm, Donald Trump’s administration can use American law to demand access to our data. Our most private health and financial records and military secrets are being gift-wrapped for a US President who views the UK as a pawn in his “imperialist toolbox.” One MP called this a “gaping national security vulnerability.” Another warned it’s a “kill switch” that Trump’s inner circle can flip whenever they want to squeeze us for trade deals.

We cannot allow our democracy to be sold off to Trump’s billionaire cronies. That’s why we need to act right now to stop another contract being signed.’

Dr Piers Robinson, an expert in ‘black propaganda’ where western media promotes false government narratives, suspects the recent ‘discovery’ of chemical weapons in Syria was manipulated to back up claims by OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) that Bashar al-Assad’s forces used chemical weapons which provided the excuse for UK and USA to bomb Syria in 2018.

Listen; Chemical Weapons, UK Column News, 10 June 2026

Mike Robinson; “What is your take on this latest so-called find of chemical weapons in Syria?”

Dr Piers Robinson; “Well we knew as soon as the Syrian government fell in 2024, the question to open up is what is the OPCW and its sponsors and the states who essentially back it, what is it going to do in the coming year, two years in Syria? And I suspected, and some people I work with on this issue suspected that they’re going to be very determined to find something which is going to legitimate claims which have been made over many years. And of course the backdrop to all of this, and the articles on your website describe this, but the broader backdrop to this is that there’s been a long standing critique of both the OPCW investigations and also the claims that the Syrian government, that Assad had been using chemical weapons. And there’s a well documented list of what I would describe as corrupted or manipulated investigations, some of which I summarised in the series I produced for UK Column but which really came to the fore with the Douma incident in 2018 when the Syrian government was accused of carrying out a chlorine gas attack. The French, British and Americans bombed Syria in response, and at that point whistleblower scientists from within the OPCW emerged and essentially confirmed or testified to the fact that the investigation had been manipulated in order to blame the Syrian government. And at that point it became an international issue in terms of the OPCW investigations being corrupted, being influenced by the Americans, the Brits and the French in order to essentially point the finger at the Syrian government for carrying out these attacks. So that’s the backdrop to this. So it was always going to be on the cards that there was going to be a big institutional imperative to legitimate the OPCW claim which has been made over the last 10 years. And of course the big picture here is that the actors and the entities involved in what I would argue are the staged and the false flag events you’ve seen over the last 10 years. Those people are all in positions of power and control now. So obviously Jolani, ISIS, Al Qaeda effectively take over the Syrian government. You then have Katoub, who was a advocate for Syrian-American Medical Society, which was a regime change operation which was involved in promoting some of the alleged chemical attacks. He’s the ambassador to the OPCW representing the Syrian government. And then you have former inspectors who were involved in some of the dubious investigations, are now advising the Syrian government. And then on top of that, you have the White Helmets, who are in positions of power within Syria and who are also involved in these efforts to find evidence of chemical weapons. So all of the entities, all of the actors who are involved in essentially the staging, the fraud which has gone over the last 10 years, are in a position to sew the whole thing up and to find the evidence which they need in order to vindicate, so to speak, the position of the OPCW and all of the Western mainstream media and all of the actors who promoted this narrative.”

Read; Like Midas, our rulers want to monetise everything they touch – and kill it, Jonathan Cook, 9 June 2026

‘War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether it is against workers at home or against other nations abroad. The “end of history” has brought not a unity of interests, and end to struggle, but ever greater polarisation between the haves and have-nots, between powerful nations and weak ones. War drums sound ever more loudly across the globe. Ask Venezuelans, Cubans, Greenlanders, Ukrainians, Russians, Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians how the “end of history” is working out for them. Ask Europeans and Americans too, now permanently mired in the politics of austerity. Ever more workers have been forced into the gig economy, with zero-hours contracts. And that is before an AI “revolution” makes swathes of jobs redundant. The ever-growing arrogance of the Epstein class, however, is catching up with it. A mood of unrest is beginning to find its voice, recognising that we are already deep in a class war. Meanwhile, Iran – by refusing to submit to US and Israeli aggression, and in realising its power to throttle global oil supplies – has shown that full-spectrum dominance was never as complete as the “masters of the universe” assumed. It has an Achilles’ heel, after all.

The truth is we should all have been terrified by the idea that our leaders might assume and behave as if history had come to an end. In practice, it could mean only an end to constraints on capitalism – an end to any humanising limits on its reach, on its ambitions, on its cruelty. Like King Midas, the Epstein class expected to monetise everything it touched. And like King Midas, hubris will be its downfall.’

Watch; EX-BANK INSIDER EXPOSES WHO REALLY RUNS THE WORLD! LSB Film Productions, 7 June 2026

‘Justin Walker joins the podcast for a deep conversation covering global banking systems, technocracy, surveillance, the City of London, the Bank for International Settlements, environmental narratives, and the growing concerns around unelected power structures shaping modern society. From central banking to digital ID systems, this discussion explores the claims, theories, and historical connections many believe sit behind today’s political and financial systems.

The conversation also dives into David Bellamy, David Icke, climate debates, AI surveillance, the World Economic Forum, the Great Reset, and the wider push toward a technocratic future. Justin shares his perspective on natural law, media influence, global institutions, and why movements like “Humanity First” are emerging in response to what many see as increasing control over everyday life.’

Topics Covered:
Global banking and central banks
The Bank for International Settlements
The City of London and financial power
Technocracy and AI surveillance
Climate narratives and CO2 debates
David Bellamy and environmentalism
David Icke and alternative research
Digital IDs and social control systems
Natural law and common law
The Great Rising and Humanity First

‘Immigrants aren’t a threat and they never were. They’re a tool in a machine that has been engineered to eat all of us alive. And the real threat are the engineers of that machine, people like Trump and his administration, and behind them all the technocrats whose agenda he’s pushing.’

Watch; A calm and reasonable message, yet some people will still reject it, existential.hormesis, 26 May 2026

“I don’t know if this video is going to get who it needs to, but if you support Trump or ICE, if you’re MAGA, loud and proud, please stick around. I’ve got questions in case you need this. I’m white, I’m male, I’m American, born and raised, I work out, I live on a farm. I started hating seed oils like 20 years before you did. Not gay, not bi, not trans, not a Democrat, also not a Republican because the two-state party system is bullshit. Not a Christian because organised religion is a scam. And let’s be clear, Jesus said exactly the same thing, he wasn’t a Christian either. So I’m going first because that’s the way this works. But I want to hear from you, give me your comments, make a response, real. Whatever. Let’s go. From where I’m standing right here, right now, it looks to me like ICE is not about immigration and it never was. Please, if I’m wrong, prove me wrong, but first hear me out, because it looks to me like ICE is about gaining control for a small group of billionaires and immigration is the excuse they’re using to manipulate the entire country, maybe the entire world, into war. So we all know things have been going to shit for a long time now in the States and you’re worried about crime and losing your jobs and losing essential American values, which are all very legitimate concerns. But what I don’t understand is when or how you were convinced that immigrants are the problem. So let’s take a step back from it. When I was growing up, I worked a lot of different jobs, construction, landscaping, agriculture, I worked in kitchens, I worked with a lot of immigrants, mostly Mexicans. But anyone who’s ever worked with these people, they’ll tell you they’re amazing. They’re fast, they’re focused, they’re funny, they work hard for almost nothing and they’re good people that make it worth going to work in the morning. These are the people building our homes and growing our crops and doing it for wages that make those things affordable. The truth, as far as I can tell, is that the US needs immigrants to stay afloat and it needs them to be illegal so that they don’t get paid a decent wage and have no benefits. They need you to be racist to keep the whole system afloat. That’s what keeps the prices down, that’s what keeps food on your table and a roof over your head in an economic system that is otherwise completely unsustainable. It’s just an updated version of slavery, where instead of going to Africa and bringing the slaves here by force, we go into Latin America and destroy the country so much that they will fight to come here and work as slaves voluntarily. So immigrants aren’t a threat and they never were, they’re a tool in a machine that has been engineered to eat all of us alive and the real threat are the engineers of that machine, people like Trump and his administration, and behind them all the technocrats whose agenda he’s pushing, which is destroying the Constitution and freedom and real Christian values and everything you say you love. So, just to be clear, I’m not saying this is only a Republican issue, the Democrats are full of shit, too. Obama was a nightmare in a million ways because the whole system is rigged. It’s just a shell game for an elite ruling class that are hidden behind the scenes pulling all the strings. When you give power to a dictator, everyone loses. This has happened dozens of times in living memory. We’ve run this experiment. Ask the Germans, ask the Spaniards, ask the Italians. Fascism is not a good deal for anyone. George Orwell said it best, “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.”

Watch; Digital currency is the ULTIMATE weapon of total control, Andrew Bridgen, 15 June 2026

Presenter; “They’re ramping things up in a very aggressive manner and people are now realising, it’s almost like we’re sleeping and they’re building a cage around us as we’re sleeping. What are the signs that you’re seeing that they’re ramping up this? And how far do you think they are away from achieving that goal of that totalitarian police surveillance state or surveillance police state?

Christine Anderson MEP; “They’re realising they’re running out of time because more people are waking up. What they don’t get though is people are waking up because they’re ramping it up, it’s getting so ridiculous. So they’re kind of running out of time. They have a feeling, rightly so. The window is kind of closing because the critical voices are becoming more and they’re becoming louder. So that’s why they are ramping things up, and you see that. So there is so many issues going on right now. They’re erecting these 15-minute ghettos, that’s what I call them. And they’re starting with that pretty much in Great Britain. Then Ireland too, it’s kind of starting there. Netherlands, of course, you have the farm, they bash down the farmers. Once again, we’re being told it’s just to make a better life for us, to make the world a better place. But what it actually means is you won’t have food if the farmers don’t produce food anymore, you won’t have anything to eat. It’s as simple as that. And tying into that, I wonder why Bill Gates all of a sudden buys farmland like crazy. Why would you do that? Well, if you have control over the food, you have total control of the people. So we’re seeing all of these issues going on. Digital identity, next thing, digital identity. It’s not so your life is easier, it’s so government has total control over you. Look to China with that social credit system. That’s our future. And I’m not talking the future 30, 40, 50 years from now. It’s happening now. It is happening now. Digital currency. Oh, isn’t that the creme de la creme of all control mechanisms? What do you think is going to happen if the next time you refuse to take an mRNA shot with a flip of a switch, they just cancel your account? You cannot buy food anymore, you cannot do anything anymore. That’s pretty much where I think it’s going. It’s to erect a totalitarian surveillance state.”

Famous Australian beauty, environmentalist and campaigner Natalie Kyriacou rants about the state of the world.

Watch; How will future historians describe the world in 2026? Natalie Kyriacou, 22 June 2026

Natalie Kyriacou; “We had access to more information than any civilisation in human history, and we used it chiefly to quarrel with strangers on small glowing rectangles owned by hairless billionaires who discovered that they could monetise human misery, vanity and emotional instability. We had robust scientific data and we used it to form conspiracy theories, deny climate change and perfect plastic surgery techniques. We built an economic system that prospered from oil spills, war, cancer, drug addiction, gambling addiction, mental health crisis, but we didn’t consider human or environmental health. We also invented social media and it promptly addicted us, surveilled us, radicalised us, destroyed our attention spans, damaged our children psychologically and gave teenagers eating disorders. Every three years, millions of people would gather in school halls to perform a sacred ritual. They would vote between a small number of very similar looking men who would go on to lead the country. Having performed this sacred election ritual, voters would spend the following years ignoring politics entirely, while binge watching reality TV and listening to male podcast hosts discuss protein supplements and whether or not women’s rights was ruining civilisation. We were the only species that actively debated whether or not we should maintain the environmental conditions necessary for our own continued existence. Ensuring the health of things like the atmosphere and forests and oceans would presumably be an obvious priority for a species that rely entirely on those things to survive. But no. Environmental debates became so tedious that by the end of it, even the environmentalists were sick of the environment. Children were starving en masse and though we had the ability to stop that, we chose not to. A very small number of individuals accumulated more wealth than entire nations, and then they used it to purchase yachts, media companies, private space programmes, and often just bought the political system itself. Humans are unique, not in the impressive way like an octopus that can change colours, but like a person that clips their toenails on the bus. We have split the atom, we’ve cracked the genetic code and we’ve hurtled expensive metal objects into space, but when it comes to the question of whether we should keep our own planet habitable and our own people alive, we remain curiously undecided. We have turned the simple matter of survival into an endless controversy. There is nothing inevitable about the way that we run our economies, or draft our laws, or govern our societies. These systems have no independent existence, they exist because we will them to, they are human constructs. Unlike the laws of nature, like gravity, for example, which applies equally to everyone, human-made systems like economics, law, and politics are made up and often structured to the advantage of a small and select group of people. And that is why gravity applies to everybody, but tax loopholes do not.”

Watch; We have been lied to and defrauded, Andrew Bridgen, 19 June 2026

‘A water car in 1974:
– Goes 110 km/h
– Goes more than 1600 km with only one tank
– Does not emit any pollution
We could drive water cars, but the forces that manipulate humanity will never allow it.’

Covid Vaccine Scam

The connection between mRNA COVID vaccines and cancer relapse and occurrence. By Prof Angus Dalgleish

Watch; Cancer evidence to Senate, Dr. John Campbell, 21 June 2026

‘My name is Professor Angus Dalgleish. I am an oncologist and immunologist with decades of experience in cancer immunotherapy and HIV research, including early clinical use of cancer immunotherapy in the United Kingdom long before checkpoint inhibitors were approved. I am Professor Emeritus and Foundation Chair of Oncology at the University of London, and Principal of the Institute of Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy. Beginning in late 2021, I observed a series of unexpected cancer relapses and unusually aggressive disease presentations among patients whose conditions had remained stable for years.

A consistent pattern quickly became apparent: these relapses followed repeated COVID booster administration.These were patients in long-term remission who suddenly relapsed after being advised to receive additional doses of the vaccine. Despite the seriousness of these observations, there was little willingness to openly investigate these potential safety signals. From my background in HIV research and immunology, including early work involving the CD4 receptor, I was particularly sensitive to signals involving T-cell function and immune dysregulation. This led me to become concerned that repeated boosting strategies might contribute to impaired immune surveillance in vulnerable individuals, a concern later supported by evidence of exhausted T-cell responses following repeated vaccination. Over time, however, it became increasingly clear that the pattern extended far beyond relapse in vulnerable cancer patients alone.

I began observing something far more alarming: unusually aggressive cancers, advanced-stage disease in younger individuals, and clinical presentations that differed sharply from what we would normally expect in routine oncology practice. Something broader — and far more concerning — appeared to be emerging. In my own clinical practice, I observed a marked increase in unexpected cancers among boosted patients, including breast, prostate, pancreatic, lymphoma, gall bladder, glioma, and bladder cancers. Some of the most striking observations came from colorectal cancer surgeons, who described a shift from earlier-stage, more routinely detected disease toward patients presenting with metastatic stage IV cancers and unusual thrombotic features.

Increasingly, these patterns extended beyond clinical settings and into personal lives. I watched close friends develop aggressive late-stage cancers and rapidly deteriorate following repeated booster administration. At that point, the issue no longer felt purely academic or theoretical. It became deeply personal. I became increasingly concerned by unresolved questions surrounding the biologic behavior of mRNA-based platforms. Emerging literature proposed several biologically plausible mechanisms linking these vaccines to cancer progression, including immune dysregulation, vascular injury, and effects involving oncogenic and tumor-suppressor pathways. Additional issues involved residual DNA fragments and SV40 promoter/enhancer sequence elements identified in certain vaccine lots, findings which I believe warranted far greater regulatory scrutiny and independent investigation given their potential oncogenic implications.

Through my previous work with mRNA experts and service on the Scientific Advisory Board of CureVac, I also became increasingly uneasy about questions involving biologic stability, genomic interaction, and the adequacy of long-term safety evaluation surrounding repeated mRNA exposure. For example, unresolved questions remain regarding potential interactions with cellular genetic processes, potentially activating cancer-promoting pathways while disrupting tumor suppression.The consistency of these clinical observations, combined with emerging mechanistic evidence, should have prompted far greater scientific scrutiny and open investigation than they received.

Instead, many clinicians and researchers became increasingly hesitant to openly question or investigate these potential safety signals at all. As a UK citizen, I found it striking that several members of the Royal Family, who were vaccinated, publicly disclosed unexpected cancer diagnoses during the same period many clinicians were reporting unusually aggressive cancers more broadly. Given what we know already, I have no doubt in my mind that the mRNA vaccine likely played a significant role in the development of these unexpected cancers. I raise this not to imply certainty regarding any individual case, but to illustrate how difficult open scientific discussion surrounding these broader patterns has become, even when the observations are highly visible.’

Tulsi Gabbard, former Director of Natonal Intelligence, exposes US-funding for bio-labs and the gain-of-function modification of pathogens to make them more dangerous to humans.

Read; Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine Tulsi Gabbard, 12 June 2026

Tulsi Gabbard; “After months of searching through intelligence community holdings and files, today I’m releasing new evidence of long-standing US government funding of more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries. Now, these biolabs include labs in places like Ukraine which could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. In fact, the intelligence community had previously warned that a US-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to long standing threats of Russian attack, seizure or damage. Now, until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from you, the American people. Many of these US Government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens and in some cases included dangerous gain-of-function research with very little visibility or oversight. Now President Trump clearly understands the serious threat dangerous gain- of-function research poses to the American people, and this is why he took decisive action over a year ago. On 25 May 2025, he signed an executive order to end federal funding of gain-of-function research around the world. Here at ODNI I issued new guidance to the intelligence community directing increased collection on these laboratories and facilities overseas. And we’re already seeing the results of this increased collection. We’re learning new details, for example, on clinical trials that are underway at these facilities and that are raising significant ethical, financial and security concerns regarding the supposed public health initiatives and US national security. Now, despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians and so called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, as well as entities within the Biden Administration’s national security team, lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of US-funded and supported biolabs. Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth. So this release today breaks new ground as the information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US-funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by very powerful people who falsely claimed that these biolabs didn’t exist. Now they accuse anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America. Now, ODNI will continue working closely with partners across the US Government to identify exactly where these labs are and what pathogens they contain to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and well being of the American people and people around the world.”

Sean Stone, who used to present Russia Today programmes before RT was banned in the US, explains some of the real objectives behind the Covid scamdemic.

Listen; Tucker Carlson interviewed Sean Stone. If you can watch it, rather interesting–especially Sean’s thoughts on why COVID happened, Meryl Nass, 8 June 2026

At 1 hour 40 minutes of the interview, Stone provides some of the “layers” that COVID was used for:
The USG wanted to print lots of money, yet without a war to justify it
A goal was to test peoples’ compliance with the restrictions
Test willingness to go along with quarantine camps
Impose a system of people tracking, and digital verification of vaccinations
Testing the ability to push non-compliers out of society

Zuckerberg, on tape, warned his executives not to take any of the mRNA vaccines as they alter DNA. Now he’s made a complete U-turn and bans anyone on Facebook from writing about the side-effects of the DNA-modifying vaccines.

Watch; Leaked video of Mark Zukerberg, Andrew Bridgen, 19 June 2026

‘Leaked video of Mark Zuckerberg where he warned his Facebook execs NOT TO GET VACCINATED with the mRNA (COVID) vaccines because “we don’t know the long-term side effects of modifying people’s DNA & RNA”

He censored doctors, scientists, and the sick who denounced the ‘Vaccines”

A review of a book about vaccine harm by Dr Andrew Moulding.

Read; Every vaccine produces harm, Unbekoming, 29 June 2026

‘The same cranial nerve palsies that flag a stroke in an adult patient appear on the faces of vaccinated children, with identical pathological signatures, and almost no one in mainstream medicine will look at them. Andrew Moulden looked, and what he saw led him to the categorical claim that every dose of every vaccine produces microvascular damage in the recipient, whether or not the recipient or the recipient’s physician recognises any symptom. Dr. Andrew Moulden:’ Every Vaccine Produces Harm’ (Sophia Media, 2015) is the preservation document John P. Thomas assembled from the six hours of ‘Tolerance Lost’ video lectures and the surviving interview transcripts after Moulden’s sudden death in November 2013 erased most of the public record. The damage Moulden identified runs through two converging vascular processes: the collapse of zeta potential, the negative electrical charge that holds blood cells in colloidal suspension, and what he called Moulden Anoxia Spectrum Syndromes, a cumulative ischemic response to any foreign substance injected into the body. The capillary-level strokes that result are too small to register on CT, MRI, or angiogram. They appear on the face.

Moulden held a master’s degree in child development, a PhD in Clinical-Experimental Neuropsychology focused on detecting acquired brain injuries, and a medical degree with residency training in Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry. The combination placed him inside both the neurological and the psychiatric institutions that produced the diagnostic categories he came to challenge. He could not be dismissed as a fringe outsider, which is why the Canadian College of Physicians eventually required him to dismiss himself. In 2010 he was forced to sign a contract declaring his own research delusional and accepting pharmacological treatment for a disorder that the College’s own independent psychiatric assessors had been unable to diagnose, as the price of retaining his medical licence. He died at forty-nine, three years later, two weeks after telling a small circle of trusted colleagues he was about to break his silence. John P. Thomas, working with editor Brian Shilhavy at Sophia Media, assembled this volume from the six hours of Tolerance Lost video lectures, surviving interview transcripts, and three chapters of an unfinished book Moulden left behind.’

Watch; THIS Is How They Covered Up The COVID Vaxx’s DEADLY Side Effects! w/ Sen. Ron Johnson, The Jimmy Dore Show, 13 June 2026

‘In this exclusive interview, Jimmy speaks with Senator Ron Johnson about his investigation into COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring, focusing on allegations that federal health agencies overlooked or minimised safety signals reported through vaccine adverse event reporting systems. Johnson argues that FDA and CDC officials failed to adequately investigate reports of adverse events and criticises what he describes as a lack of transparency regarding vaccine risks, while Jimmy contends that mainstream media and pharmaceutical industry influence discouraged scrutiny of official COVID policies.

The segment also features testimony and claims from several physicians and researchers who expressed concerns about mRNA vaccine safety, adverse events, and potential links to various health conditions, while arguing that additional research is needed. Throughout the interview, Johnson characterises the issue as a major government accountability scandal and called for greater transparency, investigation, and public debate regarding pandemic-era health policies.’

Watch; Reiner Fuellmich Exclusive, UK Column News, 17 June 2026

Intro; ‘Thanks to the dedicated work of supporters of Reiner Fuellmich, Brian was able to travel to Bremervörde, Germany, to visit Reiner in prison. Reiner was the man who created the Corona Investigative Committee and to whom Brian gave formal evidence about the UK Government’s use of political applied behavioural psychology to induce fear into the UK population. The Government’s objective: to instil greater compliance of vaccine uptake and lockdowns by increasing fear of Covid and the accompanying social backlash for those challenging the system. Brian’s visit to Reiner in prison, coupled with extensive interaction with Reiner supporters, has facilitated this exclusive and extended UK Column report into Reiner Fuellmich. He is the man who supporters say ‘took a bullet’ to help save mankind.’

Provoked War with Russia

Read or Watch; “Russia Is Ready for War”: Putin’s Warning as Former CIA Analyst Says NATO Escalation Could Trigger Direct Conflict, Scheerpost, 28 June 2026

Intro; ‘Larry Johnson tells Glenn Diesen that the conflict in Ukraine has entered a dangerous new phase, arguing Moscow increasingly views NATO as a direct participant rather than a distant backer—and warning that the margin for diplomacy is rapidly disappearing.’

Joshua Scheer; “Has the war in Ukraine reached a point where Russia no longer sees itself as fighting only Ukraine? In a wide-ranging conversation with Glenn Diesen, former CIA analyst and former State Department counterterrorism official, Larry Johnson, argues that NATO’s growing involvement—from intelligence support to long-range weapons—has fundamentally changed Moscow’s calculations. Johnson contends that Russia increasingly views Western governments as direct participants in the conflict, raising the risk that future retaliation could extend beyond Ukraine itself.

The discussion explores President Vladimir Putin’s latest warnings to the West, the possibility of further military escalation, Europe’s strategic calculations, the role of energy and economic pressures, and whether diplomatic opportunities that once existed have largely disappeared. Throughout the interview, Johnson presents his assessment that the conflict has entered a far more dangerous phase, while Diesen questions whether European leaders fully appreciate the consequences of continued escalation. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson says the war between Russia and Ukraine is approaching a critical turning point, arguing that Moscow increasingly views NATO not simply as Ukraine’s supporter, but as an active participant in the conflict. Speaking with political scientist Glenn Diesen, Johnson said Russia believes Western intelligence, surveillance systems, targeting assistance and advanced weapons have blurred the distinction between Ukrainian and NATO military operations. In his view, this has significantly increased the risk that Russia could eventually retaliate against countries supplying military support rather than limiting its response to Ukraine.

Johnson pointed to recent statements from Russian officials—including President Vladimir Putin—as evidence that Moscow believes diplomacy with the West has largely failed. He argued that Russian leaders increasingly believe Western governments are preparing for a longer-term confrontation rather than seeking a negotiated settlement.

The interview also examined Putin’s recent references to Nazi Germany’s 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. Johnson interpreted those remarks as a warning that Russia believes it must prepare for what it sees as a direct military threat rather than assume negotiations will prevent one. Diesen questioned what strategic objective European governments believe they are pursuing through continued military support for Ukraine. Throughout the discussion, both speakers argued that Europe’s military capabilities and economic position may not match the increasingly confrontational rhetoric coming from some Western leaders.

Another major theme was the economic impact of the broader geopolitical conflict. Johnson argued that Europe remains vulnerable to energy disruptions and warned that continued instability could deepen economic pressures across the continent. He also discussed the emergence of alternative financial and geopolitical institutions led by countries including China and Russia, suggesting these developments reflect a changing global balance of power. Johnson further claimed that Russia’s domestic political climate is shifting toward stronger military responses as the war continues, although he argued President Putin has so far acted more cautiously than some Russian hardliners would prefer. The conversation concluded with Johnson asserting that the greatest danger lies in miscalculation. He warned that if Russia ultimately concludes NATO countries have become direct combatants, future escalation could move beyond Ukraine in ways that neither side intends.’

Fires burning Russian fuel depots to provoke the bear to retaliate against the EU who are behind these Ukrainian attacks.

Watch; “OH MY GOD!”. GIANT FIRE AT THE IMPORTANT OIL PUMPING STATION “SOLNECHNOGORSKAYA” IN MOSCOW! Цензор.НЕТ, 17 May 2026

We have been brainwashed to think Putin wants to invade Europe when he has said no such thing. He wants Russia to be part of Europe and asked Clinton if Russia could be a member of NATO. The West wants to Balkanise Russia to retain its hegemony and steal Russia’s plentiful resources. There’s little debate in Westminster or views that oppose war in the mainstream media. However, thanks to independent media, the truth is out and so people disagree, with only 22-28% who think the UK should send troops or take direct offensive military action.

Watch; A New Putin? From Diplomacy to War, Glenn Diesen interviews Alexander Mercouris: 30 June 2026

Alexander Mercouris; “Constantly provoking a nuclear power is never a good idea. Once upon a time during the Cold War, this was fully understood…. I never remember a single situation where these kind of attacks were carried out by one of the two superpowers against the other. Now, we do this all the time, and we’ve got into this situation where we think we can hit the Russian superpower continuously and never provoke a response. And what, again, I think we are overlooking is that it is taking all of President Putin’s determination and authority to maintain that sense of discipline and restraint on the Russian side. And that is not something that we can afford to assume will remain the case forever.”

Glenn Diesen; “I’m firmly convinced that if it hadn’t been for Putin, if there had been some other leader representing Russia, most likely be much, much more hawkish, and Europe would be a much more dangerous place today. So it confuses me a bit why there’s such an eagerness to try to humiliate Putin, to push him aside whenever there’s an argument that Putin is losing support, still enjoys support to know other European leaders enjoy. But nonetheless, what exactly do they think is going to replace Putin? The idea that his slow waris going to be somehow replaced with capitulation, or is his slow war going to be replaced with a massive retaliation also against European countries betting on the United States not coming to the raid? I just find it to be foolish. But it is a question about Europe. How do you make sense of the leaders these days? Because if you’ve gone back a few years, and you would have told me like a decade ago that,we’re going to be launching missiles directly into Russia from our territory, our weapons. We’re going to have war planners openly bragging about our participation. We’re going to have a contractor as intelligence officers. We’re going to have politicians bragging about how we’re going to bring the war to Russia. You’re going to people like President of Finland telling people how the only way to win the war is to kill more Russians. I mean, this is so far beyond anything,,, forget about the Cold War. Even a decade ago, any of this would have been unthinkable. Five years ago, this was unthinkable. Now you have the Germans wanting to take the lead in the campaign against Russia. They want to be the largest military power in Europe. I mean, this happened fairly quickly, and they only talk about war. Again, that has to be made the point. Europeans are still not talking to Russia. I mean, how do you explain what is happening in Europe? BecauseI don’t recognise my own society anymore. It’s become a very ugly place, I would say.”

Alexander Mercouris; “I’d say exactly the same about Britain. It’s become very, very difficult to talk about these things. And one of the reasons why we have this constant pattern of escalation is because the internal debates that ought to be taking place never are, because all debate is closed down. If anybody comes forward and says, well, look, is this really a good idea to be conducting missile strikes into the territory of the world’s most powerful nuclear power? Well, again, what you. What you find is that the moment you say that you’re told that there’s a Putin talking point, you’re accused of defeatism, or worse still, of being actually on the Russian side. The momentum, the advantage, the rhetorical advantage, is always with those who advocate escalation. The political advantage is always with those who advocate escalation. And this is a very, very dangerous situation, and it’s one that we have created amongst ourselves, because never mind that we can’t talk to the Russians, we can’t talk intelligently any longer amongst ourselves.”

Craig Murray is a former head of Maritime Section of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is a former alternate head of the UK delegation at the UN Preparatory Commission for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Also an author, broadcaster and human rights activist, he was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004.

Read; The UK Joins the Pirates, Craig Murray, 16 June 2026

‘This attempt to enforce Western sanctions in areas where Western powers have no jurisdiction is a classic example of the current aggressive resurgence of imperialism replacing international law. I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regime’s refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud Flotilla on the High Seas was illegal. I did not realise it was because the U.K. was planning to undertake a similar illegal seizure itself. The Gaza Flotilla seizure was illegal for obvious reasons; freedom of navigation had been the undisputed basis of UK maritime policy for centuries. The UK is a set of islands whose population is dependent on food imports to stay alive. Freedom of navigation is a core strategic interest of the UK. The relevant provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea were very heavily UK-driven, including on passage through straits.

Abandoning the primacy of freedom of navigation is absolutely a radical policy departure for the UK — driven, like so many other changes to traditional British legal positions, by the Starmer regime’s extreme support for Israel. It is not generally understood how profound a change this is. Even the Tory government of David Cameron, with William Hague as foreign secretary, had opposed the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and particularly Israeli seizure of vessels on the High Seas. William Hague stated in 2010 to the House of Commons of the boarding of the Mavi Marmara: “We are seriously concerned about the seizure of British nationals in international waters.”

This is a long-term British legal position now directly repudiated by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. I had not realised that not only was the UK now supporting the campaigns of illegal blockade and seizure of vessels being openly pursued by Israel and by U.S. President Donald Trump, but Starmer was actually intending to abandon freedom of navigation and join the Trump/Netanyahu doctrine. That is what the UK has now done by its seizure of the Smyrtos (Russian ship) as it had passed through the Straits of Dover en route to Sikka in India on Sunday. The Dover Strait is a strait. The clue is in the name. The UK has absolutely no right to close it to Russian shipping. This is in Article 38 of the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea. Transit of international straits “shall not be impeded” is pretty plain. This is the applicable legal regime for both the Strait of Dover and the Strait of Hormuz.

Obviously in time of war different considerations apply, and commercial shipping of belligerent states — and to and from belligerent states — becomes a legitimate target. Iran is fully justified in also treating states permitting attacks launched from their territory as belligerent states. If hostilities end, this U.N. Law of the Sea regime should apply again in the Strait of Hormuz.

It is worth a footnote to say that Iran had, until the recent illegal aggression by Israel and the United States, always strictly observed the international law on straits even though Iran did not sign the convention and actually had entered a formal reservation on passage through straits. Even during the war, Iran had attempted, in extremely difficult circumstances, to establish a system for passage of genuinely neutral vessels.

Abandoning the Principle of Free Transit

It is astonishing that at this moment, when navigation of the Strait of Hormuz is arguably the single most live question in all of international politics, the UK has decided to abandon the principle of free transit through straits. It takes hypocrisy to an entire new level — it truly beggars belief – that the day after closing the Dover Strait to Russian shipping, Starmer issued a joint statement with Germany, France and Italy insisting on “Freedom of Navigation” in the strait of Hormuz. Even if you don’t care about international law and believe that Trumpian realpolitik is better, to act against freedom of navigation now would seem an unwise decision. The UK. is now copying actions like the United States naval blockades of Cuba and Venezuela, and the Israeli genocidal blockade of Gaza. These are gross violations of the Law of the Sea.

UK. Government minister Lisa Nandy was on television news last night as the government pumped out militaristic propaganda. The Royal Navy’s action in boarding and capturing an entirely unarmed and peaceful merchant vessel was portrayed as an act of Nelsonian brilliance. Nandy justified the seizure on the grounds that Russia’s oil sales pay for its war with Ukraine, and that the UK was enforcing sanctions against Russia. Neither provides an atom of legal justification for seizing the vessel. The UK. is not at war with Russia. Ukraine is, and the Ukrainian navy would have been entitled to seize the vessel. For reasons of cheap popularity and to increase the massive amounts of public money swirling around the corruption honeypot of military spending, UK ministers seem determined to move us to the brink of war with Russia. But we are still not at war, and the UK. accordingly has no right to seize peaceful and innocent Russian bound, owned or flagged commercial vessels.

The UK. is legally entitled to put whatever sanctions it wishes on Russia. But it can only enforce those within its legitimate jurisdiction. A foreign vessel, even when engaged in innocent passage or transit passage through a UK strait or other territorial waters, is not under UK jurisdiction. The Smyrtos was in fact in international waters south of the UK. when seized. In fact this attempt to enforce Western sanctions in areas where Western powers have no jurisdiction is a classic example of the current aggressive resurgence of imperialism, where the “rules-based order” — meaning rules imposed by the imperialists — replaces international law.

Nandy also stated that the Smyrtos was a member of the “Russian shadow fleet.” This is a term that the Starmer regime and their client mainstream and corporate media have relied upon repeatedly to demonise the Russian owned or directed merchant fleet. Russia sells oil to countries like India and China perfectly lawfully. That this oil is carried in ships bearing flags other than Russian is perfectly normal.

Nil or close to nil of those ships carrying hydrocarbons to and from the UK are UK-registered and flagged. It has been a sad truth of international shipping for many decades that commercial vessels bear flags of convenience, and that jurisdictions compete to offer the very lowest standards of crew salary and welfare regulations, officer and crew training, vehicle condition, and maritime safety and inspection regimes.

Most of the registries of well-known international flag of convenience states such as Panama, Liberia and the Marshall Islands, do not really exist in the sense of being government departments of those countries, as they should be. They are private companies with almost no real-world footprint, which pay a fee to the government to operate the registry, and collect the fees from the shipowners registering. The register is just names in a laptop — and very often that laptop is in London. UK colonies often have substantial numbers of such fake registries. The UK is a strong opponent of the International Transport Workers Federation, which has struggled against this system to improve mariners’ rights. The system evolved for wealthy shipowners to avoid all maritime safety, environmental and welfare regulation, and the UK. and other Western countries which pander to the needs of the ultra-wealthy have always been complicit. The incredible hypocrisy of Western states pointing fingers at Russia for running “Flags of convenience” is breathtaking. The West has spent decades building and profiting from the global flags-of-convenience system. Russia is simply using the same system that Western companies created and still dominate.

Incidentally the MOD’s own propaganda footage, shown by all UK mainstream media yesterday, proves that the Smyrtos is a modern, clean, well-equipped and comfortable vessel and all the propaganda about an ancient rustbucket is completely untrue. I have finally managed to pin down the alleged legal basis of the seizure of the Smyrtos, and it is that the vessel was stateless and thus subject to boarding under Article 110 of the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea. The UK is claiming that the Smyrtos fell foul of Article 110.1 (d) that it was “without nationality.” We will inspect that claim more closely in a moment. But, assuming it for a moment to be true, note that you only have a right to visit and inspect on the High Seas a ship that is without nationality. Article 110 absolutely does not confer any right to seize a ship on the High Seas not found on inspection to be in unlawful activity. The UK. has seized the Smyrtos, brought it into UK territorial waters and then claimed it is under UK jurisdiction. Nowhere is that allowed in the Convention.

Now let us look at the claim that Smyrtos is without nationality. This is an astonishing story which the media will not tell you. When the Smyrtos set sail from Russia it was flying the Cameroonian flag, and on the Cameroonian register. That is not in doubt. While the ship was on its voyage, on June 10, Cameroon withdrew its registration. It did so because the EU and UK threatened to halt development aid to Cameroon unless they removed Russian vessels from their shipping register. So the UK. blackmailed Cameroon into deregistering the ship. Then, before the ship could reach a friendly port, the UK boarded it because it had been deregistered. Now doubtless there are chortling people in the UK security and military industries self-congratulating themselves over how clever they are. But while this may be a clever ruse de guerre, it is hardly a ruse de paix. It is not going to survive scrutiny by an international court. An unexpected change of registration, forced upon the owners, is very difficult to complete instantly, but doubtless one was in train and perhaps finished. The UK actions are patently — and deliberately — unreasonable.

Politicians seek to drum up cheap popularity by stupid jingoism. Starmer has won a cheap headline. The world inches closer to the next world war. The UK loses yet more legitimacy in the eyes of the wider world. Meantime Trump claims as a great victory a possible return of the Strait of Hormuz to the open status it enjoyed before he started an illegal war in the interests of Israel.

Freedom of navigation was a principle worth defending. It has been abandoned in favour of a return to the rule of the seas by those with the strongest navies. Fortunately Russian President Vladimir Putin is neither as war hungry nor as politically desperate as Starmer. However Russia will now be obliged to send at least a frigate to keep the Strait of Dover open. The drums of war beat ever closer.’

CIA plot to create anti-Russian fervour amongst Ukrainians

Read; How The CIA Conjured Ukrainian Nationalism, Kit Klarenberg, 8 June 2026

‘A bitter row has erupted between Kiev and Warsaw, after Volodymyr Zelensky renamed a Ukrainian military unit the “Heroes of the UPA”. The UPA – Ukrainian Insurgent Army – was an ultranationalist faction heavily implicated in the Holocaust, which slaughtered up to 100,000 Polish civilians during World War II. In addition to commemorating the mass-murdering militant group, the corpse of Andriy Melnyk, leader of UPA parent the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), was reburied in Kiev. At a grand accompanying ceremony, Zelensky declared: “Today we all see that the Ukrainian idea can overcome what once seemed absolutely insurmountable. Now, when we are on Ukrainian soil, under our Ukrainian flag, to the sound of the Ukrainian national anthem, paying due tribute to our Ukrainian heroes, we feel in our hearts everything Ukrainians were forced to go through, everything our people had to endure.”

The unspeakable horrors inflicted upon Poles – and Communists, Jews, Romani and other “undesirables” – by Melynk and his fellow Nazi collaborators were of course unmentioned. So too that the genocidal nationalism practiced and preached by Melynk was covertly promoted and sponsored for decades by Anglo-American intelligence, within and without Ukraine. The ongoing proxy conflict is a direct product of this little-known spectral meddling, which was specifically concerned with promoting cultural and ethnic difference, and enmity, between Russians and Ukrainians globally.’

UK sends 150,000 drones to Ukraine

Listen; Its very aggressive this posture towards Russia, UK Column News, 19 June 2026

Patrick Henningsen; “A 750 million package to provide Ukraine with 150,000 drones and boost air defence. This is what the UK is sending to Ukraine. This is coming at a time when this happened this week here, this was a massive drone attack on Moscow just two days ago. Only a few drones got through Russian air defence. That’s the worrying thing, 550 were launched, only a couple made it through, what if 500 had made it through? We would be in a different world this morning.”

Brian Gerrish; “We would have expanded the war.”

Patrick Henningsen; “I’m telling you how absolutely risky this is here, ‘Moscow struck by Ukraine’s biggest air raid since the start of the war’… on Moscow. Now we know where this is heading. So what I’m saying is, when these people are meeting, Brian, and when they’re talking about war, AI applications, drones swarming the enemy and so forth, not negotiating, no diplomacy, how to prepare for World War III, I’m very concerned how all of these things come together and how they’re converging.”

Brian Gerrish; “Well, you should be Patrick, because the average man, woman in the street has no control over these people. They’re not accountable in any way. They must be made accountable.”

Patrick Henningsen; “So they’re pushing this Russian threat, but it seems to me, Brian, that our governments, particularly the E3, Britain, Germany and France specifically, and the EU too, are doing everything possible to provoke a massive reaction from Russia. It’s almost as if they want Russia to strike drone manufacturers in Europe or to send a message to NATO. How can you call this a proxy war with that announcement from the British MOD there? I mean, there’s a fine line, isn’t it? I think we’re way over it.”

Brian Gerrish; “We’re way over it. And it’s clear that the drums are being banged to spread the war and to hell with the risks. I think we’re in a really, really dangerous time, and my point with Andy Burnham is that the policies he is going to bring in are not going to be accountable to Westminster and Parliament, we’re going to get more of the globalist agenda. And it’s not only pure political agenda that you’ve talked about, it’s also coming through these bodies having effectively private meetings.”

Patrick Henningsen; “And it’s very aggressive, this posture towards Russia, the provocations, the drone swarms, the European countries are absolutely behind it. The United States is also behind this as well. Don’t think they’re not involved, they’re absolutely involved, providing intelligence, targeting information and so forth. So NATO is very, very busy accelerating this war path. They keep talking about it at all their meetings at the same time the governments are all simultaneously calling for massive Internet censorship, wanting to scan everything that you upload to the Internet, push digital IDs, fast track digital IDs at the same exact time. Is this a preparation for war?”

Brian Gerrish; “That’s not a coincidence, Patrick, is it? It’s definitely not. It’s not a coincidence. And of course, it has been repeated by many different politicians, UK is to be put on a whole-country war footing. Everybody’s talking about this, production is going to be for war jobs are going to be about producing war material, we’re going to bring young people into the armed forces in order to have the country on a full war footing. So are these people mad?”

Listen; Ray McGovern: Putin Under Pressure to Retaliate Against NATO, Glenn Diesen, 23 June 2026

Glenn Diesen; ” I think that probably the Russians have got less faith in Trump’s diplomacy after Iran because there as well you saw the first initiative for the ceasefire, which was on the US side when they accepted the 10-point plan of the Iranians but then walked it back right away. And overall the trust in his diplomacy has diminished. But about the risks though, you mentioned the 10, 15% chance of ending up in a direct war with NATO and that is a big risk. But if the alternative was status quo, I would see the problem though is status quo is not available. The escalations only continue. Well, essentially my thought though, when I watched this massive attack on Moscow was that someone would have to pay a very big price for this. But that someone will likely be Ukraine. And it does seem a bit unfair because the Ukrainians, well, a majority of Ukrainians, they did not want the regime change that NATO instigated in 2014. And most Ukrainians voted for Peace Platform in 2019 and they had the NATO countries essentially reverse it, and most Ukrainians want immediate negotiations. The Europeans are boycotting diplomacy, so most of the Ukrainians also want Zelensky gone. It’s NATO that’s pumping billions of dollars to fund the corruption to keep Zelensky and his henchmen in power. And it’s NATO that’s offering or providing all the weapons and intelligence and working on these attacks on Russia. So it does seem unfair that it’s Ukrainian cities that will burn as a result of this. I know politics shouldn’t be about what is fair, what is strategically sound, but nonetheless, it does sound cruel that the Ukrainians always have to pay the price for what the NATO countries are doing. Do you see, though, the escalation, when does it essentially become too risky for Russia not to essentially ignore those 15%?”

Ray McGovern; “Well, we’re human beings and we should look askance at the kind of cruelty that is being visited on the Ukrainians, that’s for sure. But the Ukrainian rulers, Zelensky, look what he’s done in exhuming the bodies of Nazis and giving them full honours. Whether he’s been bought into this Nazi attitude toward things or whether he feels constrained by the only viable divisions in the Ukrainian armies that are left, the Nazi-led divisions, I don’t know, but he does seem beholden to these people. And so the Ukrainian people don’t really have a chance here.”

Glenn Diesen; “When does Russia essentially reach the conclusion that doing nothing is more risky than retaliating against NATO? Because the collapse, I would say, of its deterrence is seen now in Moscow as being a key problem. Zelensky, the reason why the polls are so angry with him he’s become quite a horrible character. But that’s not how he was elected, though, so I think that, well, if it was up to the Ukrainians, he would be gone, but in the NATO countries, we’re paying very big bills to make sure that he stays exactly where he is, that he continues to kidnap his own citizens and ship them to the front.”

Ray McGovern; “Now, I don’t know if you knew this, but there is an analysis now that as we watched all those drones going into Moscow and the whole area, well, it wasn’t the whole area of Moscow, it was on the outskirts where nothing much was happening and they were full of kerosene. In other words, there weren’t really bona fide drones, if that’s the way to put it, and the reason they were set that way is so that the Ukrainians and others could take photos. And people like me had to watch that live, talking to another interviewer, ‘Oh, my God, what’s going on here?’ The next day, we found out what these

things really were. So a lot of this is showmanship, a lot of this is Hollywood.”

Interesting that this article about The Controlled Demolition of the Twin Towers et al have been removed from Children’s Health Defense website?!

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/9/11-controlled-demolition/

Venezuela

Read; US Dept of War uses Venezuela’s earthquake to deepen infiltration; The Grayzone 1 Jul 2026 TheGrayzone

The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil joins Max Blumenthal to discuss the deadly double earthquakes that struck Venezuela and the Trump Department of War’s plans to exploit the crisis.

Investigation into whether human activity could have triggered the Venezuela earthquake.

Watch; Did Humans Trigger Venezuela’s M7 5 Earthquake? The Coincidences Are Real, Ray’s Astrophotography, 27 June 2026

”Did humans trigger Venezuela’s M7.5 earthquake — or are people connecting real coincidences into the wrong conclusion? In this investigation, we look at the timing that made the theory explode: recent oil activity in Lake Maracaibo, the arrival of the Alula rig, the September 2025 Maracaibo quake doublet, the June 2026 M7+ Venezuela doublet, and the major fault system running across northern Venezuela. But then we test the claim against the science. Induced earthquakes are real — Oklahoma proved that wastewater injection can trigger damaging quakes under the right conditions. But Venezuela’s case is different: shallow oilfield reactivation, no proven high-volume deep wastewater disposal operation, and a major tectonic plate-boundary rupture on the Boconó–San Sebastián–El Pilar fault system — with the drilling sitting roughly 227 miles from where the rupture actually struck. We also look at why people connect this quake to HAARP, Starlink, China’s weather-modification program, and global earthquake timing — and why those claims feel plausible even when the physics does not hold.

The coincidences are real. But coincidence is not the same as causation.This is not a panic video. This is an investigation.’

Graphic photographs and update on the impact of the earthquake

Watch; They Found “THIS” Inside Venezuela’s Collapsed Towers! On the Pulse with Silki, 29 June 2026

‘Venezuela earthquake disaster: powerful M7.5 and M7.2 quakes hit near Yumare, San Felipe, La Guaira, Caracas, Caraballeda, Catia La Mar, Los Corales, Macuto and Valencia. Buildings collapsed in a similar way after years of warnings about weak construction, seismic-code failures, corruption risk and vulnerable towers. Faults involved include the Boconó Fault, San Sebastián Fault and El Pilar Fault on the Caribbean Plate–South American Plate boundary.”

China

China’s strategy for development and geopolitics is brilliantly explained by comparing it to the West. Clearly China’s rules of national and global governance are superior to those in the US.

Listen; Einar Tangen: Can China Resist the Temptation of Empire? Glenn Diesen, 21 June 2026

Einar Tangen; “When you become too dominant, people become concerned that you’re going to use your power the way that colonial powers did, which was basically to enforce a kind of hunger game scenario where you’re completely dependent upon them, either through manipulation of countries by creating artificial borders that pitted minorities against majorities, just out and out of theft, use of gunboat diplomacy, et cetera. So this is one of the reasons I wrote the essay, is to try to help people understand that China’s view of things is very different from the colonial view. Under colonial view, you go in, you rape, rob, take, and you justify that you’re bringing civilisation and God to the godless and the uncivilised, despite the fact that the countries they were actually, quote, ‘civilising’ had civilisations that were thousands of years older than the civilisations of the West.

The one part that didn’t quite go to plan was this idea of having these blue blood families continue their rule. Because what happened is the generations that followed were not interested in running the companies that their forefathers built so they left it to professionals, accountants, business majors, consultants who told them what they should be doing and then eventually started running the companies themselves.

And as a result, what started out with this idea that you were established in oligarchy, has in essence become a headless horseman. Because the professionals have been given very strict orders, maximise shareholder value and that generally means on a very short term. Why? Because that’s how they get their bonus. It’s the rat and cheese. If I say, if you maximise the value this quarter or this year, I’m going to give you a big bonus, of course, you’re going to do everything you can. What’s different about these families and these professionals that they hired is the families actually lived where their factories were, or at least some of them.They started out somewhere, they were connected to the community. They might have been good or bad.

They’re taking goods and services and they’re dominating these economies, sometimes directly through military gunboat diplomacy, sometimes through political interference, sometimes through just sheer power of their ability to control the financial networks, and the movement of money, the dollar, and generally. So the US is going that way. China says, no, we have a different idea.Our idea is that we can grow the pie bigger, not try to figure out who gets the biggest slice of pie, but how the pie gets bigger. And the reasons for that are simple. They say, well, if the world pie grows, and we are part of the manufacturing end of it, we’re going to have bigger markets. Our bigger markets are complementary to these other countries because we want them to succeed. We’re helping them build infrastructure, not just get resources out, but also to be able to buy goods. And when those goods are bought, some of them are going to be made in China, continue to be, but many of them are going to be made in those countries. Now, why would China have an interest in exporting jobs to other countries? Well, when people have jobs, they have disposable income, when they have disposable income, they buy things……from China.

Zionism is a Colonial State Project

Israel

Watch; Italy shut down for Palestine, the_muslim_world_today, 10 June 2026

‘A nationwide general strike has paralysed the country. Over 75 cities joined the 24 hour action, with more than 500,000 people taking to the streets and downing their tools. Organised by grassroots unions USB, CUB and SGB, the strike saw schools, transport networks and ports grind to a halt. The demand is clear; a complete boycott of Israel. Workers are calling for an immediate end to the genocide in Gaza and the total severance of all economic, military and diplomatic ties with the occupying state. In a powerful act of resistance, dockworkers in Genoa and Livorno blocked ports to prevent the shipment of weapons to Israel. Protesters flooded the streets of Rome, Milan, Naples, and beyond, chanting “Free Palestine” and waving flags.

The Italian government may refuse to recognise Palestine, but the Italian people have made their position unmistakably clear: they stand with Gaza. They demand an end to complicity. And they will no longer be silent.’

Read; Some Guy Broke into My House, Caitlin Johnstone, 21 June 2026

‘Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his great-grandparents used to live in this house and now he won’t leave. My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don’t even care about his religion, I just don’t like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.

“The poor guy just wants one room to call his own,” his friends say in his defense. “You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That’s kind of bigoted and evil.” He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it’s understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don’t hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us. And what’s weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I’m coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he’s been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It’s like there’s a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.

It’s having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy’s being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It’s really unfair. Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he’d never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends try to get me in trouble and claim I want to exterminate the guy. It’s a real mess, man.That guy sucks.’

According to Wikipedia, ‘Vanessa Beeley (born 1963/1964) is a British activist and blogger known for sharing conspiracy theories and disinformation about the Syrian civil war and about the Syrian volunteer organisation White Helmets’. When in fact she is half British, half Syrian, highly respected and experienced investigative journalist, spokeswoman and blogger who speaks four languages, English, French, Arabic and German. She is living in and focused on the Middle East, is an associate editor for 21st Century Wire and a regular contributor for UK Column. Creepy AI is corporate owned and designed to ensure we remain ignorant. See this interview with her and Richard Medhurst covering The White Helmets.

Listen; Syria Podcast, Vanessa Beeley; UK Column News, 30 June 2026

Intro; ‘Mike Robinson is joined once again by journalist Vanessa Beeley for a wide-ranging conversation covering the latest developments in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran, and Britain’s role across the region. They begin with the latest US–Iran developments, including a reported agreement and Trump’s renewed strikes on Iran. Attention turns to the upcoming funeral of former supreme leader Khamenei and the potential danger that Israel or the United States might exploit it, despite the presence of journalists and activists and the existing memorandum of understanding.’

Mike and Vanessa discuss the role of al-Jolani as an instrument of British intelligence, with Vanessa detailing MI6 activity in Syria, arguing this is fundamentally a British story: British taxpayer money fuelling devastation abroad that in turn feeds migration and unrest at home. Drawing on Northern Ireland, they warn that sectarianism remains a tool of elite control — and that what unfolds in the region will increasingly be mirrored here in Britain.’

Mike Robinson; “Talk a little bit more about this MI6 activity in Syria at the moment. So a lot of people won’t appreciate this, but what you’re saying is that Jolani is a tool of British intelligence.”

Vanessa Beeley; “He’s a tool of British intelligence. Because we talked about this many times, the role of MI6 throughout the history of Syria, since its independence in 1946, MI6 has been heavily involved, more so than the CIA, because of its history in the region with the Sykes-Picot, it’s to a degree, competition with France over influence in this region, hence the Sykes-Picot dividing up of the region. And basically Jonathan Powell, who of course was the security advisor to Tony Blair and was then adopted by Keir Starmer. We know Keir Starmer was very much a protegé, as far as he could be, of Tony Blair. But Jonathan Powell established an organisation called Inter-Mediate. He, in 2012, contacted Hillary Clinton and said, look, I can act as an intermediate between you and the terrorist groups. So MI6 was effectively, because there were elements within Inter-Mediate that had direct connections to MI6. So this was an MI6 operation with Tony Blair’s fingerprints all over it, of course. Because if we also go back, Tony Blair and George Bush were trying to basically create a different relationship with Bashar al- Assad and with Syria in order to avoid the regime change war. Tony Blair offered or proposed that Assad should be given a knighthood back in 2002. That all fell apart around 2009 when the British authorities informed Roland Dumas, the then French Foreign Minister, that they were already fomenting an armed insurgence against the Syrian government. And so British hands have been all over this regime change war, through the White Helmets, through the multiple NGOs and organisations like the Free Syrian Police and so on, to effectively run these kind of propaganda operations, black ops, against the government, which include, of course, the fabrication of the chemical weapon attacks and so on, including the BBC, Channel 4, and all of these media organisations that acted effectively as a tool of British Intelligence inside Syria.”

Read; Will Jolani stand down or is the Syrian strike force poised to enter Lebanon? Vanessa Beeley, 27 June 2026

‘The Syrian quisling President, selected by the enemies of Syria, has gone on record trying to explain what President Trump meant when he said Syria could deal with Hezbollah after Israel’s failure to defeat the Lebanese Resistance. In a recent interview Abu Mohammed Al Jolani said: “From President Trump’s statement, the answer is that he was expressing frustration with what is happening in Lebanon and looking for other solutions, and that there could be a positive role for Syria through the Lebanese state and Lebanese institutions.” In tones dictated for him by MI6, Jolani went out on a limb to deny the potential for any military action against Hezbollah and Lebanon – he said Syria should support the ‘Lebanese state, strengthening its institutions, and building channels of communication among the political parties and active forces in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, in search of a security solution that everyone can accept.’ Taking the words of a terrorist operative in the pay of the entire regime-change alliance that finally brought the war of resistance to an end in 2024, would be foolish. It is far better to surveil the surrounding operations and actions on the ground that belie Jolani’s dulcet tones.

In my first article on The Burning Borders I go into some detail about the build-up of a strike force along the eastern Lebanese border with Syria. My information is from very reliable sources inside and outside Syria who remain anonymous for their security. After Ukrainian President Zelensky visited Damascus in April 2026, I started to receive reports of Ukrainian forces gathering, firstly in Tartous and now in western Aleppo. The same Ukrainian build-up was seen in Idlib, during the year prior to the HTS attack on Aleppo that resulted in the capture of Damascus in December 2024. It must be presumed that Ukraine will again supply drone technology and equipment to the Jolani militia, while perhaps enabling Jolani to despatch foreign mercenaries to the Ukraine-Russia frontlines.

On June 20th the US-led coalition in Syria bombed the headquarters of the Turkistan party in the Idlib countryside. Also assassinated was Sami Al Oraydi, a senior leader and ideological figure in the armed group Hurras al-Din. HaD were a thorn in the side of the Jolani bid for power in Idlib. I reported previously on the US Coalition efforts to weaken HaD on behalf of Jolani, striking headquarters and command structures with coordinates provided by Jolani. Since Jolani was handed power and dominance over Syrian territory – there has been a concerted attempt to dismantle the ideological vanguard of ‘global jihad’. The landscape of Idlib in north-west Syria has become a complex arena where the strategic objectives of international security intersect with shifting local power dynamics. The ongoing elimination of Al Qaeda/ISIS figures by the international coalition should not be viewed in isolation from the overarching objectives of the US-Israel-led alliance and the operational alignment of local actors, led by Jolani and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Understanding this operational framework is vital to predict Washington’s agenda to neutralise any cross-border threats to their control of Syria and to the security of “Israel”.

Watch; Jeffrey Sachs: The Greater Israel Project is Collapsing, Glenn Diesen, 25 June 2026

Jeffrey Sachs; “From 1996 onward, the American government has basically backed the Greater Israel Project and it has gone to war constantly to fight Israel’s claim to overturn governments that were supporting Palestinian rights. And Iraq is a classic case. The 2003 US war on Saddam Hussein to overthrow the Iraqi government was completely pretextual. It was based on absolutely deliberate propaganda that the US had to invade Iraq after 9/11 to prevent Iraq from getting or to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction, which then were shown not to exist at all. And they said, oh, so sorry, we thought they existed. No, they knew they didn’t exist. This was a Netanyahu neoconservative plan to overthrow a government that was supporting the Palestinian cause, on a pretext, on a lie, a war on utter lies. And this has gone on now for 30 years, and just about all the wars in the region in one way or another include the CIA and Mossad and Greater Israel as a motivation. So overthrowing Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which was a CIA operation called Operation Timber Sycamore, signed by Obama in 2012, 2013, tasking the CIA to overthrow Bashar al-Assad was also at the behest of Greater Israel. Why? Because Assad had links with Iran and Iran was seen as the supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah. And hence this axis of resistance, so called, needed to be defeated by overthrowing Bashar al-Assad. That turned out to be a 15 year bloody war caused by the United States, prolonged by the United States, denied by the United States because they called it the Syrian Civil War, there was nothing civil about it. This was a war by the CIA and Mossad to create a government that would not back the Palestinian people. Well, the long and the short of it is that since 1996, Iran has been the prime target for Greater Israel proponents. And when the war, this current war, started on February 28, 2026, when Israel and the United States attacked Iran in a completely unprovoked war of aggression, completely illegal, completely fatuous, and a failure. When they did that, Netanyahu tweeted, this is my dream of 40 years. And I read that and I was taken aback because I had always said it was his dream of 30 years, because I didn’t know what his dream was for the 10 years before he became prime minister. But this is his dream of 40 years. Well, my point has been, Netanyahu, go home. Take your own dream away from the United States, and to the United States Greater Israel is not an American project. It’s not in America’s interest. It’s not according to morality. It is not according to theology. It is not according to international law. It is. It’s disgusting. It’s perpetual war. And why the United States backs this is a disgrace. It’s because of lobbying and people who are not thinking straight and big money in campaigns and tens of millions of protestant evangelical voters looking for the end of times and many odd things. I live in a kind of crazy country that is able to do this, but this has been a 30-year perpetual war for something that has no justification whatsoever.”

Read; 114 children deliberately shot in the head and chest, Mirandavidak, 21 June 2026

‘Dutch newspaper ‘De Volkskrant’ just won the European Press Prize for their investigation into 114 Palestinian kids in the head and chest.No mainstream media reported on it. No headlines. Buried, like all the other atrocities that tiny country in the ME committed, while the report about it receives one of Europe’s most prestigious journalism awards.’

Read; Israel continues to commit genocide, atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, UN independent commission finds, UN News, 23 June 2026

“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.

The report refers to the period following Hamas’ invasion of Israel in late 2023, which resulted in 1,200 deaths and 250 taken hostage, and the subsequent war Israel waged against Gaza that has to date killed more than 70,000 Palestinians in the besieged and occupied territory.

“Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law,” he said.

Read the full report here.

Unprecedented suffering

Last year, the commission concluded that “Israel had committed genocide against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, found that the intense scale and systematic nature of the Israeli military operations have continued, resulting in unprecedented death, injury and trauma of Palestinian children.”

Here are some findings in the commission’s latest report:

Israel has killed 20,000 children and injured 44,000 more since 7 October 2023

Severe physical and mental injuries, mass trauma, orphanhood, separation, disability, repeated displacements, starvation and the collapse of education and healthcare have erased childhood and will continue to affect children in Gaza throughout their lives

Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, with no information on their whereabouts

Israeli security forces have used sexual violence against children as part of the collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered and intergenerational pattern of occupation and hostilities

Chilling testimonies

The latest report, “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023, contains testimonies describing deliberate targeting and killing.

“There can be no doubt in anyone who reads today’s report that every international legal norm has been violated by the actions of the Israeli authorities towards Palestinian children and they need to be held accountable,” Commissioner Chris Sidoti said at a press conference in Geneva, citing cases from the report.

In one instance, a 14-year-old boy was shot by an Israeli military patrol as he was leaving his house, Mr. Sidoti said, explaining that the patrol had been in the area, but at the time there had been no fighting taking place.

“He was shot, badly injured and was lying on the ground,” Mr. Sidoti continued. “He was surrounded by a company of Israeli soldiers who were chatting and probably some of them smoking, over a period of 45 minutes, while this 14-year-old boy bled to death.”

Starvation and targeted attacks

Also highlighted in the report was the widespread devastation of critical infrastructure that served children. Israel’s targeting of neonatal and maternity care centres in Gaza have directly harmed the survival of newborns and Palestinians’ reproductive future.

In addition, starvation imposed by Israel through blockade and siege have further caused the death of Palestinian children and severely impacted the health of many others.

Dismantling and destruction of orphanages and education facilities in Gaza and the West Bank have obstructed cognitive, social and emotional care and development and disrupted the foundations of Palestinian society, the report stated.

They ‘will not simply recover overnight’

Palestinian children have suffered immense psychological harm, having been stripped of any sense of safety and future, according to the report. Such mental harm is an intergenerational condition, producing a distinctive “occupied psyche” in which the freedom to play, imagine, hope and develop an identity has been eroded.

“Even if the bombs and guns fall silent in Gaza and West Bank, Palestinian children will not simply recover overnight,” Mr. Muralidhar said. “The destruction of their health, education and development is irreversible.”

By targeting children, Israel is eroding the foundational structure of Palestinian society, weakening the demographic vitality and overall capacity of the Palestinian people to sustain and exercise its right to determine its future as a people.

“The protection, care and survival of Palestinian children are inseparable from the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination,” Mr. Muralidhar said. “By targeting children, Israel is attacking the very capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future.”

Fresh calls for Israeli action

In its latest report, the independent commission called for Israel to cease committing violations and crimes against and affecting Palestinian children and for the end of Israel’s continuing presence in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in compliance with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Having identified military units within the Israeli security forces responsible for killing and injuring of Palestinian children, the commission issued recommendations to Israel and to all Member States to ensure accountability for such crimes.

“The international community as a whole must uphold their international legal obligations and call for an end to the hostilities, for Israel to end its occupation and to prioritise accountability and access to justice for victims as an integral component of any political process, grounded in the meaningful participation of Palestinians, including children,” the commission stated.’

Watch; Even in death these children can’t be named, Owen Jones, 27 June 2026

Chris Sidoti, UN Commissioner; “The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was the decision not to name the Palestinian children whose deaths, injuries and suffering we describe. It was a hard decision because children have a right under the Convention of the Rights of the Child to a name and their identity. And one of the difficulties in dealing with public understanding of the situation in Gaza and the West Bank is that these children are anonymised. They’re anonymised in the statistics themselves of tens of thousands of children affected in this way. And they’re certainly entitled to be recognised, to be named in death. We didn’t name them because we feared the consequences for their families. We have a basic fundamental principle not to add further harm to the harm that people have already suffered. And it was hard for us not to name these children.”

Owen Jones; “Just take a moment to process what he said. This UN Commission took the decision not to name Palestinian children killed and maimed by the Israeli army whose suffering they have documented because they fear the Israeli army will inflict vengeful reprisals against their families if they are identified. What sort of evil are we discussing here when the UN has to strip away the identities of children deliberately killed and maimed by the Israeli army for fear that their families will then be killed and maimed as well? This evil is armed and backed and facilitated by the west, by our governments. As Zachary Foster, a Jewish American historian, puts it, we only know about a fraction of Israeli atrocities because Palestinians know if they speak out, they’ll be punished, arrested, tortured or raped to death.”

Watch; I have three questions today for Israeli people, Middle East Eye, 24 June 2026

Chris Sidoti; “I have three questions today for Israeli people. What kind of people are your soldiers? Who would allow a 14-year old child to bleed to death over a 40, 45 minute period? What kind of people are your military leaders that would inculcate a culture that soldiers feel free to do this, acting with total impunity. What kind of people are your leaders? When they give orders, they make statements that encourage this kind of conduct. Not merely permit it, but encourage it.”

Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chairman, UN Commission of Enquiry; “The Commission’s findings are that Israel targets children to weaken demographic vitality and deny the Palestinian people’s right to self determination. Based on all the evidence gathered, the report makes legal findings and concludes that the Israeli authorities and the Israeli security forces have deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children and destroyed their childhood. Israeli authorities and the Israeli security forces are responsible for crimes against humanity, including persecution and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The report released today further substantiates our finding on genocide.”

Chris Sidoti; “I’m a lawyer, so I can only speak legally. There is no doubt whatsoever. There can be no doubt in anyone who reads today’s report that every international legal norm has been violated by the actions of the Israeli authorities towards Palestinian children and they need to be held accountable.”

Srinivasan Muralidhar; “When we had the oral hearings and doctors participating, they told us that many of the amputations they had to carry out on babies and very young children were without anaesthesia, without painkillers. You can imagine the agony those children went through. They also told us they’ve not seen the destruction of paediatric and neonatal facilities on this scale. Out of the six hospitals, five were completely destroyed by the Israeli Defence Forces.”

Watch; “A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head” Shehzad Younis, 24 June 2026

Srinivasan Muralidhar; “I must share with all of you that apart from the sources that we’ve quoted in the report, we also conducted oral hearings after we arrived here in Geneva this time, and three of the doctors who were involved in treatment of children in Gaza spoke to us, and they confirmed what the report has found on the basis of available material, that the gunshot wounds were specifically directed at the head and the neck to cause maximum damage. In one instance, a breastfeeding baby was shot by a quadcopter through the head and the baby now suffers a permanent paralysis. So there have been all these instances quoted in the report of specific targeting of children. Quadcopters, as all of you are aware, has thermal imagery. It has infrared heat cameras, which can tell you the shape of the body. And so the soldiers are able to immediately detect, sitting wherever they are, that this is a child who appears on the screen. And indeed it is like a game for them. And we have quoted that in the report where the soldiers say that they can, let me quote this. In the ITVX documentary, ‘Breaking Ranks, Inside Israel’s War’, one Israeli soldier described the drones, in my opinion, are what most dehumanises the other side. ‘You see everything on a screen. You drop the bomb. It feels like a game. You can sit in some basement of a house safe with your helmet off, scratching your balls, half dressed, and kill Palestinians’. This is a quotation. This is why I say Israeli soldiers have themselves put on the public domain so much incriminating evidence about what they’ve been doing. I must share with all of you that.”

Watch; UN lawyer: All Israeli soldiers must face justice, Declassified UK, 29 June 2026

Chris Sidoti, UN Commissioner; “We must move beyond expressing deep concern and strong condemnation to addressing the questions that these states have asked today. What more can be done? Accountability is not about the leaders alone. Malaysia raised the question of dual citizens. Anyone who has served in the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza since October 2023 must be considered a suspect for the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide. The issue of accountability extends beyond warrants issued by the International Criminal Court. And speaking of that court, what has been done to support the court while it is under attack from the United States? What has been done to support the Special Rapporteur? The attention now must move beyond concern and condemnation to action. Many states refer to positive actions that have been taken, sanctions on individuals. What more can be done is to start targeting institutions, not just settlers, but settlements themselves, to prevent the transfer of financial assistance, whether through trade or donations. Many states are still allowing tax deductibility for local organisations that make direct or indirect financial contributions to settlements themselves, to prevent the transfer of financial assistance whether through trade or donations. Many states are still allowing tax deductibility for local organisations that make direct or indirect financial contributions to settlements.”

Read; Israel Deports And Smears French Journalist Who Has Long Covered The West Bank, The Dissenter, 13 June 2026

‘After Israeli authorities questioned French journalist Alice Froussard at the airport in Tel Aviv, she was barred from entering the country and deported on June 11.

Amichai Chikli, a minister of “diaspora and combating antisemitism,” posted on social media, “I am pleased to announce that at this very moment, Alice Froussard, a French journalist who supports Hamas, and who claims that the October 7 massacre must be viewed ‘in context,’ is making her way from Ben Gurion Airport back to Paris.”

He added that Froussard was the latest person to learn that Israel “has run out of patience for Hamas supporters and for those who support sanctions and boycotts against it.”

Of course, this is a smear on the part of Chikli and any other Israeli official. It is another example of why Israel is ranked 116 out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) global press freedom index.’

Israel wants control over Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, one of Islam’s three holiest sites.

Watch; 2,000,000,000: The Shocking Number Behind UK Journalist’s Latest WARNING, Double Down News, 10 June 2026

Peter Oborne; “Al Aqsa Mosque, the whole compound is increasingly under attack. Ben-Gvir, the National Minister for National Security, keeps on charging in with his security people and raising the Israeli flag. And it’s very provocative. What is now proposed is essentially the Al Aqsa Mosque, the compound, the whole area will go under Israeli control, probably with the support of certain Arab states. Maybe the two dominant figures in this reckless and inflammatory move are Jared Kushner, who’s got no formal status in this at all. He’s just a member of the Trump family clan, and Huckabee, who is the American ambassador and a fanatical Christian zionist. And he got big support in the administration. Pete Hegseth, ‘Deus Vult’, he has the crusader slogan ‘God Wills’ emblazoned on him as a tattoo. And he’s a fanatical Christian zionist.”

Mike Huckabee; “1948 Was a miracle. 1967 was a miracle. 2017, The Declaration of Jerusalem as the capital, a miracle. And there’s no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the Temple on the Temple Mount is not possible.”

Peter Oborne; “So you’ve got big elements within the administration who want this, probably not the Secretary of State and you’ve got big elements inside the Israeli government.”

Richard Sanders; “It was extraordinary, this 20 years ago, this would have been considered absolutely beyond the pale, absolute fringe, lunacy. And it’s crept towards the centre of Israeli politics and is now infecting American politics as well.”

Watch; What is the definition of zionism? Spinwatchorg, 10 June 2026

Prof David Miller; “Zionism is a very, very simple thing. It’s a racist idea to set up a Jewish state in the Levant. Now, it doesn’t matter if you’re a cultural zionist or you’re not a political zionist or you don’t like Netanyahu. All of those people who believe that there should be a Jewish state in Levant are zionists. There’s a lot of nonsense talked about this and a lot of people say, oh, it’s too complicated, we shouldn’t use the word zionism because it’s a very complicated thing and people have different meanings about it. And people sometimes it’s in their heart and it doesn’t really mean killing all the Palestinians. And I say, well, let’s be clear. There is an agreed definition of zionism which really the zionists don’t disagree with, and that is zionist movement is a movement and an ideology which believes in setting up a Jewish state in the historic territory of Palestine. That’s it. That’s the definition. Now you can think it’s a good thing, as the zionists do, and you can say, oh, well, we’re returning to our historic homeland and there’s been an unbroken Jewish involvement and life in the Levant for three or four thousand years. And really all we’re doing is we’re indigenous to the Levant. They can say all that, but the core of it is that they want to set up a Jewish state. They believe that’s right, we believe it’s wrong. Anti zionists believe that zionism is inherently racist, that it must by definition be racist, it must be genocidal, because you can’t set up a Jewish state in the Levant without ethnically cleansing and genociding and pushing out the people who live there. Which of course, they did most markedly previously in 1948 with the Nakba. And then of course, in the last three or four years, a second Nakba is in process.”

Read; Israeli forces storm Birzeit University women dorms and abduct four Palestinian students,The Cradle, 2 June 2026

‘Israeli occupation forces launched a pre-dawn military raid into the occupied West Bank town of Birzeit, storming the female student dormitories of Birzeit University near Ramallah. Armed soldiers ransacked the civilian housing complex before forcibly abducting four Palestinian women and taking them to an undisclosed location.

The abducted students have been identified as Jolan Abu Awwad, Natali Abu Dayya, Laila Nael Khalil, and Sama Safi. Local sources confirmed the targeted operation was part of a larger, coordinated mass-detention campaign across the occupied West Bank today, which resulted in the arbitrary arrest of over 30 Palestinians by occupation troops.

The targeted assault on the university housing follows a deeply entrenched Israeli pattern of targeting Palestinian educational institutions, an ongoing policy of systematic harassment that UN experts describe as “scholasticide.”

On 22 July MPs debated the influence of the Israel lobby on UK politics after more than 118,500 people signed a petition calling for an inquiry. Pro-Israel MPs accused the petition of being ‘antisemitic’. Ayoub Khan, independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, said: “For millions up and down this country, the government’s approach towards Israel has defied the most basic logic of justice and humanity. Continued arm sales amid mass extermination, the weaponisation of terrorism laws, silencing dissent, the welcoming of wanted war criminals on the steps of 10 Downing Street – with every decision this government has made, it’s not only reasonable to ask questions about political influence in Britain, it’s necessary.”

Watch; Israel lobby debate, The Canary, 24 June 2026

Iqbal Mohamed MP; “Today there was a debate in Westminster hall asking for a public inquiry on the influence of the pro-Israel lobby in UK Parliament and in British democracy. I am Iqbal Mohamed, the independent Member of Parliament for Dewsbury and Batley. My analysis of the debate is that they dismissed the premise by calling it out as an antisemitic trope and therefore didn’t really engage in the substance of the debate. We shared examples, me and my independent alliance colleagues, what the public’s motivation is, and that motivation is not antisemitic. It’s to hold every state who’s interfering or engaging in our politics to be made to be transparent and to hold them accountable. And for every MP myself, if I’m taking donations from any lobbies, my colleagues or other MPs from all sides of the chamber, we need to know where that money is coming from, who the donors are and why it’s being given. To support an MP in their election campaign is absolutely fine as long as you know who’s giving the money and why. But we have seen in the last three years, and we condemn the atrocities of October 7th, but every single day since that day, the Palestinians have suffered. Babies have been shot in the genitals, babies in incubators have been died because of lack of electricity, people have died of starvation, dehydration, avoidable disease, and now over 2 million people are displaced. Israel is continuing its increased occupation of Gaza from the original 70% to now wanting to take over a further 30%. And we need to know why. The Prime Minister of our country, before he was elected as the Prime Minister, said on national radio that Israel had the right to impose a siege and to cut off water and electricity to a civilian population. That is not a nation defending itself, that is a nation perpetrating genocide. So we, all of us who spoke in support of the motion for more transparency, accountability and traceability of the funding were labelled antisemites directly and indirectly, which was extremely disappointing. But my message and the message on behalf of my colleagues is that we will stand up for justice and truth in Parliament on behalf of any and every oppressed person in our country or internationally. So I hope that this debate does not continue outside the chamber through attacks on us, smears on us for being antisemites and trying to delegitimise the public’s right to request a discussion on topics that are important to them.”

Watch; God didn’t promise Palestine to Israel, George Galloway, 28 June 2026

George Galloway; “It all turns out to be a British conspiracy. Mr. Warren, erstwhile of South Africa and the commission that went to Palestine and recommended to the power brokers, of which Balfour became the most significant actor. But this all took place around 1860. In 1860, the British Freemasons..sorry lads, the British Freemasons invented all of these things. So if you meet somebody that tells you God promised them in the Bible, there is no such promise in the Bible. God said there would be a war in the Middle East between the Jews and the Arabs. There is no such thing in the Bible. God never promised end times at all in the Bible. And the Bible wasn’t even written by God, was written by men, just like the Torah was written by men. So when those men tell you what they were promised, and when those men tell you how exceptional and special and chosen they were, well, they would say that, wouldn’t they? They were writing the texts that have now passed into a kind of mysticism. And there are people who’ve never read the Bible will tell you that God promised in the Bible a group of people called Israelis, the land of Palestine. And not just the land of Palestine, but a Greater Israel encompassing all of Lebanon, all of Syria, much of Saudi Arabia, all of Iraq and half of Egypt. That’s what they tell you is in the Bible, but it’s not in the Bible. But because you haven’t read the Bible, if somebody tells you it’s in the Bible, you believe that it’s in the Bible.”

Israeli tourists attack a food truck in Spain because it was flying a Palestine flag

Watch; Israeli tourists attack food truck, freephilistine, 24 June 2026

“A single Palestinian flag on a food truck in Spain was enough to turn a group of Israeli tourists feral.”

Thomas Massey, the first in Congress to call out the IDF crime of killing servicemen on USS Liberty 50 years ago

Watch; Thomas Massie calls for new probe into Israel’s USS Liberty attack, Middle East Eye, 10 June 2026

‘Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has used the 59th anniversary of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty to call for a new investigation into the deadly 1967 assault.

On 8 June 1967, Israeli forces attacked the US intelligence ship during the Six-Day War, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171 others. Israel later apologised, saying it had mistaken the vessel for an Egyptian ship. US sailors on the ship have said that Israel deliberately attacked the ship.Massie questioned the official account and urged Congress to pass a resolution honouring the survivors and reopening scrutiny of the attack.’

Watch; This video is now illegal to share in Israel, Middle Eastern Affairs, 24 June 2026

‘This video is now illegal to share in Israel and carries a penalty of 5 years in prison.

Former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant admits that Israel killed its own citizens under the Hannibal Directive on October 7 and blamed Hamas: Helicopters, drones, and tanks were used.’

Interviewer; “But why is the destruction then? I’m sorry., looks like because….”

Gallant; “Of our tanks …fired on them…Yeah. Yeah, because they were blocked in these houses. And we need to to conquer back the whole settlements. And it couldn’t happen without chance.”

Interviewer; “Okay, so how many work, how many were here? And then how many survived? How many did you…?”

Gallant; “No one survived from this house. From other buildings, we rescued many. But from this house, 19 people died. Among them, eight children.”

Watch; People in Gaza need to know that its the end of the zionist state, Abby Martin, 11 June 2026

Abby Martin; “People in Gaza need to know that it’s the beginning of the end of the zionist state. The zionist state will not survive. To stay in the same place they have to kill and kill and kill. That’s the only thing they know how to do, and that’s not a surviving strategy. And the more people who wake up, and certainly tens of millions of more people have woken up to the truth, to the barbaric nature of what zionism is and what Israel really represents, there’s no going back for them. So for decades, pro-Palestine advocates have been on the defence to explain why defence of Palestine, why advocacy for Palestinian liberation is not antisemitic, why criticising Israel is not antisemitic. That is no longer the case. Zionists are on the defence now explaining why they support apartheid and genocide. They’re no longer going to be allowed in the same spaces as progressives. It is a racist, colonial, genocidal ideology and it has been exposed. “

Former Ireland footballer Richie Sadlier says the two Ireland-Israel matches scheduled for September and October should be cancelled.

Watch; Let’s just not play football against them, Jemby, 29 May 2026

Richie Sadlier, former Ireland footballer; “I find this conversation difficult because we’re a football programme, we’re football people, we’re talking about a football match. But it’s in the wider context of the worst crimes imaginable being carried out by a nation in full view of the world now for approaching two and a half years. And it’s being here tonight has kind of really hit home with what it is they’re protesting and what it is we’re potentially facing. In four months, as things stand, it’ll be nearly three years into a genocidal campaign. The Israeli flag is going to hang on that pole over there. The Israeli nation or the anthem is going to be played on the speaker. Israeli fans potentially waving flags will be in those seats just there. The dignitaries, whoever they may be, maybe it’s the president. After everything the president’s family has been through recently, maybe the president will be the one who’d be forced to shake hands with the representatives of that nation just over there. It’s baffling to me how two and a half years into what’s going on in the world at the moment, it is controversial or contentious or objectionable that someone suggests, ‘do you know what? Maybe let’s not just play football against them. Maybe instead of playing a match against them, maybe let’s not play that match’.”

Albania

Watch; Israel Go Away Our Land is Not for Sale, MWT, 10 June 2026

‘ALBANIA RISES: 6 DAYS OF PROTESTS AGAINST KUSHNER’S $1.6B LAND GRAB — ‘FLAMINGO REVOLUTION’ SHAKES THE BALKANS

Tens of thousands of Albanians flood Tirana for the sixth straight day — and they are not backing down.

What’s happening:
▪️ Sixth consecutive day of mass protests in Tirana and across Albania against a $1.6 billion luxury resort linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
▪️ Protesters chant “Albania is not for sale!” and “Ivanka, go home!” — some carry inflatable pink flamingos, the symbol of the “Flamingo Revolution.”
▪️ Citizens demand Prime Minister Edi Rama resign for selling protected coastal land to foreign investors. “Albania belongs to the Albanian people,” says one protester.
▪️ SPAK, Albania’s anti‑corruption agency, has frozen millions in assets and launched a criminal probe into fraudulent land titles linked to the project.
▪️ Solidarity protests have spread to Italy, the USA and Canada — the Albanian diaspora is standing with its homeland.

The “Flamingo Revolution” has become a global symbol of ordinary people refusing to let foreign billionaires steal their natural heritage.’

Just so ‘let them eat cake’ – Albania

Read; Albania ERUPTS Over Kushner’s Private Island Resort, Redacted, 6 June 2026

‘Hundreds of thousands of Albanians are saying no to the Kushner and Trump investments in their country, no to their zionist agenda, and no to the corruption in their own government that allowed this to happen. ‘

Gaza

Tucker Carlson – Israel says it out loud – murder Palestinians like God’s command to Saul to kill all Amalekites.

Watch; Another genocide, this one took place in Gaza, Tucker Carlson, 31 May 2026

Tucker Carlson; “Another genocide, this one took place in Gaza. Israel decided to murder as many people as it possibly could in Gaza with the aim of getting the entire population to leave Gaza so Israel could take over Gaza. Now, we’re not guessing about this because Israeli officials said out loud, this is our plan. And then they tried to do it twice. In October of 2023, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said out loud in a public speech, the Palestinians are Amalek. Amalek. A reference that many in the west didn’t get, but everyone in the region understood. And it’s a reference to 1st Samuel 15. Those verses describe God’s command to eliminate a tribe called the Amalekites, including children and infants. All of them. Kill all of them. Destroy all of their property, slay all of their animals. This is God’s command. So when Benjamin Netanyahu describes the Palestinians as Amalek, you don’t need to guess what the point of this is. The point is to destroy every man, woman and child, child and infant in Gaza.”

The Lancet study shows deaths in Gaza wildly under reported

Read; Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict, The Lancet, 22 May 2026

‘Background
High-quality mortality estimates are crucial for understanding the human cost of conflict. The Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) has provided regular updates to their violent death toll for the Gaza Strip following Oct 7, 2023, but these reports have attracted both criticism and support. Independent estimates of both violent and non-violent deaths were needed.

Methods
We conducted a population-representative household survey, the Gaza Mortality Survey, between Dec 30, 2024, and Jan 5, 2025. We surveyed 2000 households across 200 primary sampling units, documenting the vital status of 9729 household members as of Oct 6, 2023, plus newborns. The sample was stratified by dwelling type and Governorate of origin. We used raking procedures to adjust for demographic characteristics and calculated confidence intervals using Taylor series linearisation. Sampling occurred in accessible areas, with displaced populations representing inaccessible Governorates.

Findings
We estimated 75200 violent deaths (95% CI 63600–86800) between Oct 7, 2023, and Jan 5, 2025, representing approximately 3·4% of the Gaza Strip’s pre-conflict population. Women, children (ie, younger than 18 years), and older people (ie, older than 64 years) comprised 56·2% (95% CI 50·4–61·9) of violent deaths, totalling 42200 deaths (95% CI 33100–51300). We also estimated 16300 non-violent deaths (12300–20200), of which 8540 (4540–12500) represent excess deaths above pre-conflict projections. The MoH figure for this period (49090 violent deaths) was 34·7% below our central estimate.

Interpretation
This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns with MoH reporting. Non-violent excess deaths, although substantial, are lower than some projections have suggested. These findings show the feasibility of mortality surveillance in active conflict zones and provide crucial empirical foundations for assessing the true human cost of the conflict.’

Israel continues to sicken the world by bombing families in tents.

Read; Israel Bombs Palestinians in Beach Tents in Gaza, Drop Site, 25 June 2026

‘KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip—Eleven-year-old Ahmed Al-Raqab was playing outside his family tent pitched on Gaza’s sandy coastline in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, on Wednesday when the Israeli missile struck, killing him and severely wounding several others.

“The children were playing and they fired a missile directly on them,” Ahmed’s father, Sabri Al-Raqab, said, sobbing as he knelt on the floor of Nasser hospital with his arms across his son’s dead body in a final embrace. “He was carrying a watermelon. What was this child’s crime? He picked up a watermelon and they fired at him. Is he a fighter? He’s not a fighter. He’s a child.”

Overcome with grief, Al-Raqab buried his face into his son’s, which was caked with blood, and wept uncontrollably. In a nearby room, a six year old child wounded in the same attack screamed in pain as blood from a gaping wound in his right eye covered his cheek and ear. He was carried into the hospital in the arms of a teenage relative who laid him down shouting, “Come attend to this boy. We are losing the boy, we are losing him.”

The child’s grandfather, Ahmed Al-Jarjawi, stood nearby, the front of his jalabiya stained deep red with blood. “We were just sitting and the strike landed next to our tent and hit three other tents,” Ahmed Al-Jarjawi told Drop Site News. “This child lost his eye. I was wounded here,” he said pointing to his chest. “My son’s wife was also wounded in the upper part of her leg.”

The latest Israeli attacks on children came a day after a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry released a report that concluded, “Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip.” The UN inquiry said that during the first two years of the Israeli assault, over 20,000 children were killed and more than 44,000 injured.

Since the so-called ceasefire went into effect in October 2025, Israel has killed at least 265 children and wounded hundreds more in Gaza, according to findings released last week by the UN children’s agency UNICEF. “During a period supposedly defined by restraint and protection, a child has been killed, on average, every single day for more than eight months,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said in a statement. “That is an absurd and devastating figure.”

Israel’s attacks on Wednesday targeted several areas of Gaza’s coastline where thousands of displaced Palestinians live in dilapidated tent encampments. The encampments by the sea lie as far as possible from the “yellow line” where Israeli troops are stationed and are steadily encroaching further westward. Yet Israel has repeatedly bombed Gaza’s beaches, killing Palestinians living in the barest part of the enclave.

Lebanon

Dr. Omar Nashabe is a criminal justice and human rights specialist with extensive academic and advisory experience. He has worked with Lebanese state institutions, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and UN experts, and has published widely on prison reform and human rights.

Watch; ‘Lebanon’s president is here to serve US interests, not Lebanese ones’, Interview with Omar Nashabe, The Cradle, 30 June 2026

Omar Nashabe; “The president of Lebanon said no to the Iranian condition, and he said, no, it’s only Lebanon that negotiates, and Lebanon does not want Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon until Hezbollah disarms. Can you imagine? That’s practically what they did, they opposed the President of Lebanon and the prime minister of Lebanon opposed a condition placed by Iran for immediate and complete withdrawal and unconditional withdrawal of the Israelis from southern Lebanon. They said, no, no, no, it should be conditional. Can you imagine any country in the world where the president would say the withdrawal from your land should be a condition because he wants to get rid of the weapons of Hezbollah? He said, until Hezbollah disarms, you will withdraw, as if he’s asking the enemy to stay in Lebanon until Hezbollah disarms. And okay, so let’s, let’s move to the practical side. So disarming Hezbollah, who could disarm Hezbollah? They want to create a joint committee, well, a joint force that would actually have the Israelis on one hand and the Lebanese army on the other, and American monitors, and they would coordinate, in fact, in the framework agreement, there is the term coordination. It’s a clear sign that there’s a coordination between the Israelis and the Lebanese against a group of Lebanese who decided to arm themselves to defend themselves against Israeli occupation when the Lebanese army is incapable of doing this job. That’s actually what happened. And it’s insane because it’s a humiliation for Lebanon’s sovereignty.”

For clarity more on Lebanon.

Watch; Lebanese authorities green-light Israeli occupation; The Grayzone, 1 Jul 2026

The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed joins Max Blumenthal from Beirut, Lebanon to discuss the Memorandum Of Understanding between unelected Lebanese authorities and the Israeli government which authorizes the Israeli military to continue its assault on the country’s south, and pushes Lebanon’s sectarian factions toward civil war.

Wyatt Reed; ‘Basically the Lebanese government, if you even want to use that term, is just rolling over and giving Israel everything it wants. What does it want? Well, it wants to maintain its occupation of Southern Lebanon indefinitely. And that is a gift that was just handed to this government. It’s a complete surrender effectively. It allows Israel to continue occupying indefinitely the entire so-called yellow line zone and beyond. The Israelis have made it very clear to Netanyahu since this news was announced – it has publicly stated that they will occupy this security zone in Lebanon for “as long as Hezbollah does not disarm”. So indefinitely, right? because Hezbollah has made it clear, painfully clear over and over and again that they’re not going to unilaterally disarm while huge spots to the south are militarily occupied by foreign invaders.This means basically that the Lebanese government has signed over swaths of the south to the Israelis. They’re basically rolling out the welcome mat for them. The framework agreement has some kind of stipulations about these so-called pilot zones where ostensibly Hezbollah will disarm and then hand over control of the territory to the Lebanese army. We’ve already seen what happens when they try to do this. The Lebanese army will come in and get killed by Israel. They get shelled or struck with drones or missiles, including even high level commanders in the Lebanese army. I think we all know where this goes. It goes to a formalization of the occupation.’

Max Blumenthal; ‘and for the Lebanese authorities who are in power, it’s a means for them to weaken their opponent by using the Israeli military by proxy to not just weaken their opponent but to attack the constituency of Hezbollah which is the largest parliamentary faction in Lebanon’s parliament. It’s just pure cowardice.’

Read; The Orwellian nightmare facing Lebanon’s journalists, The Canary, 22 June 2026

‘On March 18th of this year British anchorman for RT Steve Sweeney went viral after narrowly cheating death on camera. A 500-pound guided bomb aimed at him and his cameraman hit just feet away. Luckily, it landed in an existing crater sending the blast upwards instead of outwards which would have torn them both to shreds.

In the early hours of the same day, the Israelis assassinated 65-year-old al-Manar TV News political editor Mohamad Sherri with a drone strike on his apartment in central Beirut. It went largely unreported by Western media. His wife was also killed and several other family members injured.’

Iran

Mohammad Marandi joins the show to discuss the US conducting airstrikes on Iran overnight and Iran’s retaliation, signaling a rapid end to the MOU ceasefire. Prof. Marandi addresses these in context of major criticisms on Iran amid fallout in Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz.

Watch; Trump BLEW IT! US Air Force ATTACKS Iran – Ceasefire OVER | Mohammad Marandi, Danny Haiphong, 27 June 2026

Danny Haiphong; “Overnight, the United States struck Iran in the area of Sirik near the straight of Hormuz. Multiple areas were hit. CENTCOM published this video as quote, unquote ‘evidence’ of their strike, and Iran has said that they have retaliated, and Bahrain announced earlier this morning that a drone attack occurred in the early hours in retaliation by Iran. Of course, this all comes as tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are rising. The United States, J.D. Vance has said that there is going to be violence for violence if attacks in the Strait of Hormuz continue. This is the first strike since the Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) began or was signed by both parties. Now it seems like Iran is considering suspending it altogether after this act of aggression. Your reaction and what it means for the overall trajectory of this war?”

Professor Seyed Marandi; “Well, the Americans are violating the MOU as expected. The Iranians never believed that the United States had any intention of voluntarily carrying out its commitments. But the Iranians, in return for all US violations, are to make it more difficult for the United States in the Strait of Hormuz. And the Americans have violated its commitments to the situation in Lebanon. The Israeli regime continues to occupy enormous parts of southern Lebanon and to carry out the MOU. The United States has been trying to undermine Iran’s authority in the Strait of Hormuz by forcing Oman to declare an open corridor. That’s another violation. The US’s constant threats against Iran… Trump again during the negotiations spoke of killing, murdering the negotiators and destroying Iran and threatening the President. All of these are violations. So the United States violates the deal on all fronts, including releasing Iranian assets. What Trump said about Iran’s assets that are to be released are not true about purchasing American agricultural products and not having control over their assets. But in any case, the United States is in violation, so the Iranians warned these ships not to go through. One ship ignored Iran’s military authority and that ship was struck. Iran did not, of course, take any responsibility, but it’s obvious what happened. So the Americans struck last night. It wasn’t a very important strike. They hit, I think a tower which is made in Iran, they’ll replace it. The Iranians retaliated by striking Bahrain and again today, another ship was struck, sending another message that only the Iranian declared corridor is acceptable. Some ships do go through, smaller ships, they cling to the Omani shore. They go from the Emirates very close to the Omani shore, and then go to the Fujairah port. But they’re small ships and then they transport their goods to bigger ships to like big tankers. And then a number of them have to go through to fill up a tanker. So some do go through and it seems that the Iranians are tolerating that. But for the most part, the number of ships that have gone that go back and forth are down. They’re not nearly as much as they were before the war. And that’s because of the US inaction with regards to the MOU. The United States, if they carry out their commitments, the Iranians will carry out theirs. If the United States doesn’t, the Iranians won’t either. If the United States goes halfway, then the Iranians are going to go halfway. The difference between the situation now and in previous agreements with the United States, is that this time around the Iranians are not going to carry out or fulfil their obligations and carry out their commitments unless the Americans do.”

Watch; Iran RAINS MISSILES on EIGHT US Bases as Trump’s Attack BACKFIRES , KJ Noh with Danny Haiphong, 28 June 2026

‘Geopolitical analyst KJ Noah discusses the launching of renewed war between the US and Iran, as the two trade massive strikes overnight.’

Read; Israel’s Defeat in Iran Isn’t a Disaster – It’s an Opportunity to Face the Truth, Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 18 June 2026

‘The war in Iran has shown Israel the truth. Its so-called all-powerful army failed to achieve anything significant other than political ruin. Any rational country would draw the same conclusion – an end to living by the sword and the sword alone. The chorus line, from the right and the “left” (not counting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu): an Israeli defeat, a diplomatic disaster, Trump turned his back on us and Steven Witkoff is a Jewboy. The nation is lamenting a calamity, defeat and a near Holocaust.

The Bennetts immediately jump in and promise a fix. They will restore relations with the United States and bring Israel back to the killing fields to finish the job. That is their only promise on a particularly auspicious day. But it is neither a disaster nor a Holocaust. In the war with Iran, Israel went through what psychologists call reality testing, during which it was shown the truth. And that could be the most positive development in recent memory if only the country draws the right conclusions. The so-called disaster may turn into a historic opportunity.

In one of its previous disasters, that of 1973, Israel knew how to draw conclusions and open a new and revolutionary chapter in its history – the chapter of peace. The fiasco with Iran now requires us to sober up for a second time, but for now, there is no one to lead the course correction.

Some reality testing: A small country of 10 million people cannot fight the entire world, even if we are the sons of the chosen people, who know everything and do everything better than everyone else. Israel cannot engineer regimes, neither in distant Tehran nor in nearby Gaza, nor in next-door Ramallah either. It is not just us; even the United States cannot pull it off.

It can’t force organisations to give up their arms or uproot political beliefs from people’s hearts. The days when America was in our pocket are over. Acknowledging this reality gives us an opportunity, amid the slew of recent wars, to look in the mirror: This country’s so-called all-powerful army has failed to deliver any significant achievement other than political ruin. Any rational country would draw the same conclusion – an end to living by the sword and the sword alone. Recent history has provided enough evidence. Maybe all these futile wars were necessary to get us to open our eyes and see that there has never been a war of choice that ended well for Israel.

There’s limited time to reach this conclusion. Withdraw troops from all of Lebanon, before they lead to another pointless war with Iran. Call an immediate halt to the madness in the West Bank, before it, too, turns on its sights on us. Give the army and the air force a little rest, let them breathe. Let the soldiers use their military discounts and lunch at the fast-food joints in Tel Aviv’s Ibn Gvirol Street.

Release the thousands of Palestinian hostages languishing in National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s prisons and start behaving like human beings toward the Palestinians, before the world forces us to. And, decide where we are headed, what we want – two states, one democratic state or one suicidal apartheid state. There is no fourth option and there will never be one.

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– ‘Don’t bullshit us, Trump’: Netanyahu allies say US ‘treacherous’ over Iran deal Ben Kroll

This week, it was reported that the Israeli military was asking the government to reach an agreement with the Lebanese government before the army would be forced to pull out of the occupied areas with its tail between its legs.

Here, at least, is a case of partial sobriety. After all, the agreement with the Lebanese government could have been reached earlier, but Israel needed the reality testing of war to realise that it cannot disarm Hezbollah, and never will. The IDF, at least, is beginning to understand that. The same applies to Hamas, resistance to the occupation of the West Bank and the regime in Iran. The fact that Israel is megalomaniacal does not mean that it is capable of conducting itself according to its megalomaniacal standards, believing that bombing near and far will serve its interests. What happened to us in Iran was not a disaster, but an opportunity. We looked straight at the truth – and it lowered its eyes. Now it is our turn to lower ours.’

Listen; Seyed M. Marandi: Trump Lost the Iran War – Must Sell It as a Victory, Glenn Diesen, 24 June 2026

Prof Seyed Marandi; “I think the ten-point plan was an achievement in itself. The very fact that the Americans accepted it as the framework for negotiation. They didn’t accept the ten-point plan, but it was a huge achievement because the Americans started with unconditional surrender and after 39 days ended with, okay, we’ll accept your ten-point plan as the framework for discussions. Once at the negotiating table, they would refrain from accepting the plan. But the Americans made a bigger mistake, in my opinion, after the war. The war itself was a catastrophic mistake and a major victory for Iran, a key victory, a turning point in the world that we live in today. But what became even more, I think, devastating for the United States was what happened after the war. We were supposed to have a ceasefire. And if Netanyahu was smart, he wouldn’t have wrecked it. He carpet-bombed Lebanon in order to wreck the ceasefire. This was more than two months ago. And I know you remember, but just in case some of your viewers have forgotten, so because of Netanyahu, the ceasefire plan crashed and the Strait of Hormuz continued to remain closed for those countries that helped the United States in the war, it was never closed for everyone. The Iranians closed it to the Saudis, the Emirates, the Kuwaitis and the Qataris for their role in the war, and that caused the price of energy and LNG and all the other petrochemical products to rise. But after the failure of the ceasefire and then the US siege on Iranian ports, the situation for the entire world got a lot worse. So if Americans had been smart, if Netanyahu had not wrecked the peace or the ceasefire agreement, right now the United States would not be in this position. Netanyahu single handedly and then Trump through the siege on Iranian ports, really made things a lot worse for them because losing the war was one thing, but crashing the economy is something else.

The very name of it, it is called an MOU which indicates the fragility of the process. And so I’m not terribly optimistic because of the nature of the US government and the Trump regime and the influence of the zionist lobby and Netanyahu. So in that regard, I’m not optimistic at all. I don’t think based on that, the deal should last very long. But on the other hand, if you look at the situation logically, the shortage of energy, which Trump admitted in public, the approaching energy crisis, he said we have only four more weeks of reserves left. Some say four, four to six weeks, but in any case, the fact that he admitted this, which I find found very surprising, and I’m sure many of his advisors were unhappy that he said that aloud because of course it helps Iran. But I think that if one looks at it logically, therefore, the deal should last, because if it does not last, that means that the energy crisis is going to get much worse, Much, much worse. And if conflict is renewed, I think a global economic depression, worse than the 1930s is assured. So I don’t know, because the irrationality and, and the blood lust of zionism and the zionists is a powerful force. On the other hand, the needs of the global economy, the US economy, should far outweigh that. But I also think that it’s not just Trump whose interests are against Netanyahu’s. And Netanyahu wants crisis, he wants war. Trump needs peace so that the economy doesn’t collapse. But I think probably many people around Netanyahu and probably many zionists in the United States, Israeli firsters in the United States, are pragmatic enough to recognise that if the US economy collapses, it would be catastrophic for the Israeli regime too. So I’m just guessing, of course, I have no insider knowledge, but I’m assuming that many of these zionists who are supportive of the genocide and what’s going on in Gaza and Lebanon and the West Bank and the wars and all that, that they too must recognise that this dire economic situation is catastrophic for Israel because Israelis are now despised universally. And even in the United states, I think 60% of Americans at least have a disapproval of the regime. Add the crisis to that, the fact that people are living with inflation today is one thing, but if the crisis hits like it’s expected to do, if the shortages continue, then lives will be ruined and lifestyles of people, billions of people across the world will change. And people are going to say it was Netanyahu and Israelis who were behind it. So I think probably pragmatic zionists in the United States are probably also pushing to prevent the situation from getting worse. So I can’t say where this is going to go. I’m not particularly optimistic about the future, but I think, until now, until this moment that you and I are speaking, that progress has been made.”

Glenn Diesen; “I was also a bit surprised that Trump could say out loud that they have four weeks left of fuel, because that’s admitting quite a desperate situation for the United States. On the other hand, this is almost required if you’re going to sign this deal, to show you have to explain why. So you’d have to have to show that it’s quite desperate. So it’s probably not accidental that he will blurt this out. But this also gives me some suspicion, though, that if this is the reasoning that they’re almost running out of fuel, then it could also be an indication that this is a temporary solution, that is the memorandum of understanding to relieve some pressure, buy some time, and if they can replenish a bit, then start again from a more advantageous position. My last question, though, was just about what you said about Netanyahu. You said that everything he had done had made the situation much worse for the United States. And this is obviously something many people in the US have noticed. They’re commenting on it. Well, I guess the main example would be people like Tucker Carlson. But how do you see this developing? Because even if this would be a temporary ploy just to buy time, this kind of new rhetoric you’ve seen in the US, the open criticism of Israel, the way they’re legitimising Iran nowadays by saying, well, Iran needs ballistic missiles because its neighbour has, so it’s no longer this terrorist hub masquerading as a country. It’s now a legitimate country with legitimate interests and has legitimate rights to defend itself. I haven’t seen this, before in my lifetime, rhetoric about Iran. It’s refreshing. It’s one step towards normality. But what does this mean, though, do you think for Israel and the Greater Israel Project? They’re put in a very desperate, difficult situation and one should always be cautious when one’s opponent as well is put in a situation where they see a few ways out, they can act in a very irrational way if panic sets in. So I was just wondering, how do you see this US- Israeli relationship and what Israel can do next? I mean, a lot of its options have fallen away. Keep in mind, knocking out Iran was supposed to usher in glory days for Israel.”

Seyed Marandi; “Well, first of all, not only did Trump talk about Iranian missiles, but he also said Iran needs nuclear energy for electricity too. So that’s quite extraordinary stuff. Just one thing that I’d like to add is that the Iranians are quite aware that the Americans need their energy supplies. And one of the interesting things about the MOU, and I don’t know how it was negotiated, I don’t know the behind the scenes developments, but the first, the normalisation of the Strait business and traffic is in the second month. Iran is given a month time to normalise this trade. I can’t say for certain, but I think that the Iranians will probably use that to make sure that the traffic in the first month doesn’t exceed expectations. So I would imagine that the Iranians are going to make sure that the US shortages remain in place for the foreseeable future, and that its leverage remains intact while allowing trade to flow. But I’m pretty sure that the first month Iranians are going to have the opportunity to increase pressure and I think that’s the leverage that they have at the negotiating table right now. That’s what makes Americans free Iranian assets, lift the sanctions, otherwise they’d never do this. We saw in the JCPOA, the nuclear deal of 2015, that when the Iranians carried out their obligations under Trump, the United States refrained from doing so. This time around, the Iranians are making sure that their leverage is intact. So I don’t think the Iranians are all that excited about letting as many ships flow through the Strait of Hormuz as possible. And Trump is actually helping by threatening Iran by saying he’ll destroy the country, by saying he’ll murder the President or the negotiators. He’s also causing concern for, as I said earlier, shipping companies and insurance companies. So I’m not sure if the Iranians are too upset. Even though these are all violations of the deal, he cannot make threats. The United States is not allowed to threaten Iran at all during this period. But in a sense, this is hurting the United States more than anything else because they desperately need ships and shipping companies and insurance companies to feel assured about the future of the Strait of Hormuz. The very nature of this two-month MOU does not give great assurances. And then to have Trump ranting and raving during this period is going to make things much worse. So I think that leverage is going to remain there for the time being. With regards to the Israeli regime, we’ve seen since October 7th, we’ve seen this growing hostility towards the regime and towards zionism across the world. And in some places it’s quite surprising how even in, for example, India, the dislike is rising towards the Israeli regime. And the same is true in the United States. And what you said about Tucker Carlson is very important in a second way as well. And that is, as you watch Tucker Carlson, you see that a few months ago he began to become very openly critical of the regime, but now it’s increasingly becoming hostile. And I think that this is reflective of the growing hostility. So you disapprove and then you go further and it becomes entrenched. And this is the foolishness of the Israeli regime by continuing the genocide in Gaza. Just every day they’re murdering kids, they’re bombing tents, they’re bombing teenage girls to give their exams, the slaughter is endless and people are seeing this across the world. They’re seeing what’s happening in Lebanon, young kids who are just now entering politics with these scenes every day on social media, despite the pro-Israeli algorithms. It’s so bad and so many people are angered that young people are seeing it. And on the other hand, the older Republican Americans, which are the base of the Israeli regime, they’re old and they’re bound to decrease in number as time goes by. So you see the percentage of people growing hostile towards the regime, growing. You see the entrenchment of that anger. So the degree of hostility is growing. This does not bode well at all for the regime. I can’t say at all that whether this is going to lead to some huge fracture in the near future because at the end of the day, the political elites in the United States, the bubble in Washington, they are deeply influenced by the oligarchy, the zionist billionaires, the billionaire class, the Epstein class, whatever one would like to call it. So you have the super wealthy, the powerful zionist elite on the one hand, but you have a very angry, often dissatisfied population that is increasingly moving hostile. Where that takes the United States is difficult to say. But I think that if this shift had not taken place, it would have been more difficult for Trump to push back on Netanyahu. In other words, if this war had happened without the two and a half years to three years of genocide and Trump was in this difficult position with this energy crisis, I think it would have been much more difficult for him to push back. But now, knowing now when the political class sees how hated the Israeli regime is, it makes this pushback easier. Or if I’m making my point clear. None of this is good for the Israeli regime. Remember every time in the past when they would put something out about differences between Biden and Netanyahu over the genocide, it turned out to be a lie. Or Trump and Netanyahu over the Iran war. A few days ago last year, they were saying that Trump didn’t want war, he wanted negotiations, Netanyahu wanted war. And then they carried out this blitzkrieg attack, that turned out to be a lie. And then initially, when these outbursts by Trump began to leak, the first one saying that everyone hates Israel, everyone hates you, and he used F word, there was a debate about whether this was just good cop, bad cop, how real this was. But then we had more instances and then even Vance made some comments about Israel, the Israeli regime, that obviously do not look good for the regime. So while I don’t want to say at all that zionism is dead, that’s obviously not the case, they are extraordinarily powerful and they can wreck this agreement at any moment. It’s possible. And I would not ignore the possibility of a false flag operation in the United States in order to mobilise the American public against Iran to pursue pro-Israeli policies. But I think that in any case, zionism has been badly weakened in the United States, in the west and across the world. And I think that is going to have implications in the months and years ahead. And if the genocidal actions of the Israeli regime continue, I think it’s going to act as a catalyst to quicken the pace of this, this shift at the bottom, at the base, and it’s going to have implications at the top, ultimately, in one form or another. And of course, the economic hardship that we’re all going to experience soon, based upon what we’re being told due to the shortages of fuel that will hit whether the Strait of Hormuz is open or not. If it’s closed, it’s just going to hit harder and it’s going to be longer. But I think in the months ahead, as life gets more difficult for many people, it’s also going to be bad news for the Israeli regime. So the road ahead does not look good for zionism. The road ahead does not look good for the Israeli regime. And I think ultimately this regime cannot sustain itself in the distant future. But we cannot underestimate the oligarchy that owns the major AI companies, that owns social media and the mainstream media. They are owned and controlled by zionists, so it’s going to be very complicated. But I am not optimistic about the deal. But I am optimistic about the future. I think there will be dark days and months ahead, as I’ve always believed, and perhaps years. But I see the collapse of the empire taking place, unfolding in front of our eyes. And the collapse of the empire basically means the collapse of the power of the zionist regime because it needs Western public support, which it doesn’t have, and it needs Western wealth and power to sustain itself, which is increasingly scarce. And thus I think the internal strife in the Israeli regime is justified, and the deep concerns are justified, too. And these are not good signs for their future.”

The shameful story of the 1953 UK/US oil-theft coup in Iran

Read; The Story The West Does Not Want You To Know, Lim Tean, 24 June 2026

‘Across my social media platforms, I encounter daily a particular brand of ignorance that I find increasingly impossible to ignore. Iran is dismissed as a crazy country ruled by medieval mullahs, its people caricatured as fanatics who chant “Death to America” for no coherent reason. And from that caricature flows a conclusion that should horrify any person of conscience — that it is therefore perfectly justifiable for America, Israel, or any other country to bomb Iran, kill its people, and destroy its infrastructure.

This is not analysis. It is the recycling of propaganda as a substitute for thought. And it has real consequences — because populations that are kept ignorant of history can be mobilised to support atrocities committed in their name.

Iran is not a cartoon. It is one of the world’s oldest and most sophisticated civilisations. And its anger at America is not irrational. It is the entirely rational response of a people to whom history has been profoundly, systematically unjust.

For decades, Britain extracted Iran’s oil under terms of stunning inequality. Iranian workers toiled in dangerous conditions for poverty wages. Iranian communities near the oilfields lived without electricity, running water, or basic sanitation — while British staff enjoyed swimming pools, clubs, and comfortable salaries. The Iranian government received a pittance in royalties, and was denied even the right to audit the company’s accounts. Iran’s greatest natural treasure was being systematically looted, and the Iranian people knew it.

Mohammed Mosaddegh was everything the West claims to want in a Middle Eastern leader. He was democratically elected. He was secular. He was a constitutional lawyer steeped in European liberal tradition, who had studied in Paris and Neuchâtel. He wore suits, not robes. He believed in parliamentary democracy, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. In 1951, as Prime Minister, he did something unforgivable. He nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, returning Iran’s oil to its rightful owners — the Iranian people. The Iranian parliament voted for it unanimously. The Iranian street erupted in celebration. For the first time in their modern history, Iranians dared to believe that the wealth beneath their feet might actually benefit them.

Britain was apoplectic. The Americans were alarmed. And so, in August 1953, the CIA and MI6 launched Operation Ajax — one of the most consequential covert operations in modern history. They bribed Iranian generals, hired thugs to create street chaos, spread disinformation, and toppled the democratically elected government of a sovereign nation.

Mosaddegh was arrested, tried, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. He died in 1967, never having been broken, never having recanted — a man of extraordinary dignity whose only crime was wanting his country’s wealth to belong to his country’s people. In his place, the West reinstalled Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi — and handed him SAVAK, one of the most feared secret police forces in the world, to keep his people in line.

In September 1980, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran. It was an act of naked aggression against a revolutionary government that was still finding its footing, launched with the tacit encouragement of Washington, which viewed the chaos of revolutionary Iran as an opportunity to be exploited. The war that followed lasted eight years. It consumed perhaps one million lives. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century’s second half — and it has been almost entirely erased from Western historical memory.

What has been even more comprehensively erased is America’s role in sustaining it. As the war ground on and Iranian forces began pushing back Iraqi advances, Washington made a decision of breathtaking cynicism. It could not allow Iran to win. And so America began providing Saddam Hussein with satellite intelligence on Iranian troop positions, military equipment, and — most damningly of all — with the precursor chemicals for the weapons that Saddam would use to commit one of the most documented war crimes of the modern era. Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against Iranian forces on a massive scale — mustard gas, tabun, sarin. Thousands of Iranian soldiers died in agonising chemical attacks. And Washington knew. American officials knew that Iraq was using chemical weapons. The intelligence community reported it. And the Reagan administration made a deliberate policy decision to continue supporting Saddam regardless — because an Iranian victory was deemed strategically unacceptable.

The most haunting chapter came not on a battlefield but in a Kurdish village. In March 1988, Iraqi forces attacked Halabja with chemical weapons, killing thousands of Kurdish civilians — men, women, and children — in a single day. It was the largest chemical weapons attack against a civilian population in history. And even then, Washington’s response was muted, carefully calibrated to avoid jeopardising its strategic relationship with Baghdad.

Iranian mothers who lost sons to American-supplied chemical weapons are still alive today. Iranian veterans who survived those attacks carry the physical scars — destroyed lungs, ravaged skin, broken bodies — into old age. Iran has never forgotten. Iran will never forget.

Since 1979, the United States has imposed on Iran some of the most comprehensive and punishing sanctions ever inflicted on any nation in modern history. Sanctions on oil. Sanctions on banking. Sanctions on technology. Sanctions on medicine. Sanctions that have impoverished ordinary Iranians, denied patients access to life-saving drugs, and strangled an economy of 93 million people.

And surrounding Iran on all sides — in the Gulf, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in the Arabian Peninsula — America has built a vast archipelago of military bases, projecting power and telegraphing threat. Iran has been encircled, economically strangled, and subjected to covert warfare including the assassination of its nuclear scientists on its own streets.

Throughout all of this, Iran has survived. It has adapted. It has built regional influence through patient statecraft, cultivating allies across Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. It has advanced its nuclear programme not out of theological ambition but out of the entirely rational calculation that the only nations America does not attack are those that possess nuclear deterrence.

Much of the historical foundation of this piece draws on two remarkable books that I commend to every serious reader: Michael Axworthy’s ‘Revolutionary Iran’ — Axworthy served as Head of the Iran Section at the British Foreign Office before becoming one of the foremost academic authorities on modern Iran — and Scott Anderson’s ‘Shah of Shahs’. They changed how I understand this civilisation. They may change how you understand it too.’

Douglas Macgregor discusses Trump’s options in the aftermath of Iran’s defeat of the US and Israel in the light of Netanyahu’s need to extend the war to avoid criminal proceedings against him and the likelihood of compromising material forcing Trump to appease Israel.

Listen; COL. Doug Macgregor : Judgment Day for Trump’s War. Does he Know He Lost? Judging Freedom, 26 June 2026

Judge Napolitano; “Was there ever, as far as you can determine, Colonel, a serious plan to enter Iran, seize the enriched uranium, decapitate the government and replace it with the Shah’s son or wherever they were going to use?”

Douglas Macgregor; “Well, I think you can argue that the first part, the decapitation attempt, was real. We have sadly adopted this Israeli notion that you can assassinate your way to regime change or even victory in war. That, of course, has not worked, and the attempts to decapitate the Iranian regime have failed miserably. But that was definitely tried. That was part of the initial plan. Now, as far as the rest of it is concerned, remember we had this event down in the vicinity of Isfahan, and the supposed pilot rescue went on and so forth. That was a serious attempt, in my judgement, from the special operations side, to do what you described, to move into an area where we thought there would be uranium that could be recovered. We discovered it’s not going to work. Once again, you have air defences, you have local militia, police and military. The country’s well defended. Everybody knew what was going on. They showed up in time to stop it. Frankly, we’re lucky that we got away with losing as little as we did. So I think the idea of penetrating Iranian airspace with any kind of substantial special operations force has been pretty much tossed away.”

Judge Napolitano; “Is the United States a ground, a land power?”

Douglas Macgregor; ” “It is in the Western hemisphere, but it isn’t in the Middle East. It certainly isn’t in Europe. Remember, back during the Cold War, one of the reasons we maintained a force on the ground in Germany of 275,000 troops was that we realised we couldn’t bring that many forces into a crisis early. In other words, once the crisis began, you had too many Soviet submarines cruising the Atlantic that would prevent any reinforcement. So you bet heavily that this force in place ahead of time would be helpful. What we’ve now discovered is that if you put something like that forward today in Germany in the first hour of any future conflict, the missiles will penetrate whatever air defences you’ve got and utterly destroy the force on the ground. So the whole idea of picking up and moving hundreds of thousands of troops to another theatre beyond the Western hemisphere, I think that’s a dead issue. It’s the same thing with amphibious operations. If you think you’re going to mount another Normandy invasion, again, whatever you concentrate in England would be identified quickly and then annihilated with missiles. And if you tried to cross the Channel, everybody would be hit midstream and you’d lose all the vessels. Eisenhower forecast this in the 1950s. He told people this. It’s one of the reasons he said this whole idea of NATO doesn’t make a great deal of sense, and if it’s still around in 10 years, we failed, his point was, militarily. This is not going to work. He was right. It doesn’t. That era is over. That’s why the whole idea of going back into the Gulf now is silly. It’s been demonstrated we can’t protect any of those bases, so now we should spend billions of dollars rebuilding those bases again, that we can’t protect, and then put more soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines at risk in them? It doesn’t make any sense. That’s why this entire negotiation with Iran, I don’t know if I’d call it a negotiation, we’ve lost a strategic initiative. We have been defeated militarily. So just how much can we demand? I don’t think we can demand much of anything at all, and yet we continue to act as though we can.”

Judge Napolitano; “Can the United States disengage from the Middle East?”

Douglas Macgregor; “Well, I think the answer to that question is Israeli. If President Trump wants to withdraw us, he can withdraw us. That’s not impossible at all. In fact, it makes a lot of sense. For all the reasons that I just outlined, it makes no sense at all to try and get back in there. We need to come to terms with the people that run the strait.

How much freedom of manoeuvre does President Trump really have? What have they got on him? Is he under duress? I think he’s under duress. This man never wanted to go to war with Iran to begin with as far as I can tell, that was certainly the case five years ago. So what made him do it to begin with? Then once he got into it and he figured out this was a catastrophe, the Israelis and their agents in the United States wanted him to continue to bomb and bomb and bomb, bomb your way to success, kill your way to success, just keep bombing. The old Air Force argument; ‘drop some more bombs, eventually it’ll work’, he rejected that to his credit. That’s a good thing. He went along with this MOU, although he hates it, because he knows he’s effectively admitting that we lost militarily. But I think it’s probably real. But again, what difference does it make? The only way out of this is a military solution and that military solution is not to attack, it’s to disengage. Which is why I wrote the piece I did on the substack, Judge.”

Judge Napolitano; “Your substack piece, which I commend everyone, ‘Judgement Day for Trump’s War’ is a profound act of military understanding, personal courage and intellectual honesty. But back to what you don’t want to talk about. Will Netanyahu do his best to sabotage the MOU because he can’t stay in power and probably can’t even stay a free man if he doesn’t have a war to fight? “

Douglas Macgregor; “Oh, I’m sure that’s true, but I also don’t see any evidence that he or the people around him are prepared to stop any of it. I think they’re clinging to the notion that if they can keep this going long enough, they will somehow or other be victorious. I don’t think that’s going to change. So the answer to your question is President or Mr. Netanyahu will do everything in his power to sabotage any agreement whatsoever with Iran. And unfortunately, I think that President Trump is being duplicitous because on the one hand, it’s clear that he does want to disengage and he would like to find a way out of this but at the same time he’s got the CIA, MI6 and Mossad working out to drag Syria’s head-chopping brigade into the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and he’s actually given a green light to the sale for $700 million of jet engines to the Turks that they’re going to put in their new jet fighter, the Khan. So it looks like we’re trying to bribe the Turks to turn their gaze away from Lebanon and allow us access to the Arabs they control in Syria, the head-choppers, and move them over to fight Hezbollah. This doesn’t sound like a man who’s trying to disengage and restore stability, does it?”

Iran damages Amazon infrastructure because the US and Israeli militaries use private US data firms such as Palantir, Google and Oracle.

Read or Listen; Iran Strikes Data Centres: Escalating Cyber Warfare and Corporate Complicity in Zionist/US attack, David Miller, 27 March 2026

David Miller; ‘On 1 March 2026, Iranian forces launched drone strikes against Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, coinciding with the first day of intensified regional hostilities following US and zionist strikes that eliminated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

These operations damaged three facilities: two in the UAE suffered direct hits, igniting fires and forcing power shutdowns, while a Bahrain site sustained structural impact from a nearby drone explosion. AWS confirmed the incidents, noting structural damage, disrupted power delivery, and water-related issues from fire suppression activities, leading to prolonged recovery for affected services.

The strikes triggered widespread outages across banking, payment systems, delivery platforms, and enterprise software throughout the region. Specific impacts included downtime for apps like Uber, Careem, and local banking platforms such as those from Emirates NBD and Bahrain Islamic Bank, with core AWS services like EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, and RDS experiencing degraded performance or temporary halts, as Fortune details. AWS advised clients to migrate workloads away from the impacted zones (ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1 regions), highlighting the cascading effects on Gulf economies heavily reliant on cloud computing.

Analysts view this as a watershed in modern conflict, where commercial data centres transition from civilian assets to strategic military targets due to their role in hosting dual-use AI and intelligence workloads, as Fortune reports. The US military utilises AWS for certain operations, including running Anthropic’s Claude model for intelligence tasks, raising questions about the facilities’ dual civilian-military nature. AWS stated in its status update, as Reuters reports: “In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impact to our infrastructure”.

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