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Amy Goodman  The Justice Department on Friday released an additional 3 million pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration says it was the final release of Epstein files, even though some 2 million more documents remain unreleased. The latest batch reveals new details about Epstein’s connections to the rich and powerful, including Hollywood figures, tech billionaires, public officials and more. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said it is unlikely anyone else would be prosecuted. Attorney Arick Fudali, who represents 11 Epstein survivors, says the release of the files has been a “perfect storm” of “incompetency and an active cover-up” by the Trump administration. “It’s so mind-boggling, because they’re withholding do...

Posted by: John Phoenix It’s no secret that the political West is involved in some of the most heinous crimes in human history, whether it’s centuries of brutal colonialism, slave trade and general aggression against the entire world, or the promotion of the so-called “Western values” that make anyone sane sick to their stomach. However, the criminal oligarchy running the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and NATO is actually far worse than you could possibly imagine, as evidenced by the released Epstein files. It turns out that all the “crazy conspiracy theories” we’ve been hearing about over the last several decades are not only true, but are just the tip of the iceberg. The potential for monstrous evil that these criminals have demonstrated ...

Posted by: John Phoenix YouTube screenshot. We are living through a moment of profound danger. Operation Metro Surge is barely two months old, and there is still no end in sight. Nowhere is safe. Not schools, daycares, parks, shopping centers, or hospitals. What was presented as a crackdown on the “worst of the worst” has calcified into something far more perilous: an open-ended campaign of terror and political theater, carried out on the occupied streets of Minneapolis and increasingly across other parts of Minnesota. A permanent state of emergency has settled in. The presence of federal officers, who outnumber local police, is no longer exceptional but routine. Murder and abduction are treated as collateral. Terror itself appears to be the policy, not the byproduct. Some...

Posted by: John Phoenix Here’s a small suggestion from the two authors of this piece (us): don’t be young in Donald Trump’s America if you can help it. Being young in America right now means you’ll have to contend with stalling job markets, rampant inflation, deep political and economic instability, and impending climate disaster. If you point these things out, you’re labeled a dangerous (and misguided) radical. If you’re too busy trying to make ends meet for you and your family, you get labeled as lazy, apathetic, and defeatist. This is not to say that older generations are doing okay. They’re not. But at least they’ll get to receive (and not just pay into) social security, which has to make the fascism go down easier. Before we explain or suggest what the young can do abo...