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  The Cradle : After 3 months, Hamas has turned a "military advantage into opportunity." Fortune : Japan was supposed to be the "test case" for Trump's trade negotiations, and it's not going well... Prism Reports : Treatment, health care and medical evacuations for injured Gazans continue to be blocked by Israel. Scheerpost : Jeffrey Sachs thinks that it's time to shut down the Us military bases in Asia. Substack : Dr. Powell on how the Trump Administration Tariffs created havoc on the supply chain.  Black Agenda Report : America is not the only nation cracking down on dissenting voices... Mint Press News : ...and to drive that last point home, a journalist in Germany is in prison for criticizing the writer of a hit piece.

  Scheerpost : "The purpose of the separation of powers is not to enhance the hegemony of each branch of government. Rather, it is to safeguard personal liberty by preventing one branch from dominating either of the other two." Golden Monarch : The Bitcoin bait-and-switch is real.  Black Agenda Report : Why did Marco Rubio go to Guyana, Suriname and Jamaica? Prism Reports : "An estimated 94,000 veterans do not have U.S. citizenship, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not report the veteran status of people who have been deported, so the exact number of deported veterans is almost impossible to know. Some organizations have reported there have been hundreds of cases of deported veterans—and this is likely a gross underestimate." Zei Squirrel : Liberal Zionist Ezra Klein and his "agency" strikes again.

If the fact that Matt Damon promoted cryptocurrency years ago in a SuperBowl commercial wasn't an indicator of it's true nature, t hen this Substack article from Golden Monarch should add more substance to the argument.

 From INN's Substack : Krystal and Kyle largely cover the US political horse race on their individual shows, inadvertently helping the Democrats define the policies that their base might want, but everyone on the inside knows the corporate donors will never allow them to enact. They still want to play within this system and win personally, but don’t appear to be as concerned about the financial health of the rest of the country. They get called “the far left” by people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, completely marginalizing everyone who think Krystal and Kyle are centrists at best (like me and LOTS more independents). They are definitely corporate apologists - Krystal even more than Kyle. Kyle’s subscriber base is largely progressive lefty Democrats (amazing there are any remaining at this point!) - holdouts from the Bernie Sanders days who are still blind to how much the party loathes them. Somehow, these people still believe in the viability of federal electoral politics to...

 It appears that the working relationship between Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk has reached an end:

 Last week, noted investigative reporter Seymour Hersh published an article titled, " How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline ." Lee Camp , Danny Haiphong and Richard Medhurst , among others, have covered this revelation (you can find a copy of the story here as well ).  Now despite many, many political figures lamenting the destruction of Nord Stream 2: Many of the people (in the Biden Administration) named have not commented (but some of their spokespeople have): So instead of taking into account the reporting of the man responsible for exposing abuses during Vietnam and Abu Ghraib and correcting the record on how Osama bin Laden was killed and what happened in the Syrian gas attack , they to smear him. And not just politicians and government officials, but other journalists: Considering Hersh's track record of getting the big things correct, we would be smart to believe his report. Of course, if it's true, this means that the United States attacked an ally...