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Posted by: John Phoenix With much of the focus on Ukraine and the visit of Vladimir Putin to Alaska, Israel was free to continue to slaughter Palestinians BY PHILIP GIRALDI It must be Good News Week judging by the stories generated by the Trump regime and its supporting cast of neocons, with good old best friend and ally Israel up to its usual tricks and Ukraine, Russia, and the Europeans vying to see who can flatter and cajole the mentally challenged American president most effectively. With much of the focus on Ukraine and the visit of Vladimir Putin to Alaska, Israel was free to continue to slaughter Palestinians as part of the plan to create an “Eretz” or Greater Israel running from the Euphrates to the Nile and also incorporating much of Lebanon and Syria. The proc...

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, Conman President Donald Trump knows his first half year plus now as second term president has been sheer disaster. His constant back and forth flip flops, interspersed with his trademark belligerent threats have the rest of the world largely trying to stay clear of his grandiose sized ego and ever-changing demands. Trade-wise, his tariff aggression has most other nations trying to avoid him and his self-undoing tariffs, resolving to take their business elsewhere to actively court new partners for trade and commerce. Trump is being forced to realize he and the US are not the center of the world but just another dying paper tiger ex-empire going down in flames. Trump and the US are forced to face the humbling reality that the...

Posted by: John Phoenix Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Last month, a small brick was removed from our Constitutional wall that separates the state and church. The New York Times’s investigative reporters reported in July 2025 that the Internal Revenue Service carved out an exemption from what is referred to as Congress’s 1954 Johnson Amendment in nonprofit law, which bans nonprofits from endorsing candidates. The IRS joined plaintiffs in asking a federal judge to block this and all future administrations from enforcing the ban, specifically that churches endorse candidates from the pulpit. This exemption did not extend to other non-profit organizations. The IRS decision responds to efforts, like those of the right-wing Alliance Defending Fr...

Posted by: John Phoenix Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Let’s not mince words: every American should be alarmed by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tactics, theatrics and threats. What is unfolding in the nation’s capital is a hostile takeover of our constitutional republic. This is no longer about partisan politics, wag-the-dog distractions from the Epstein debacle, or even genuine national security concerns. This is martial law disguised as law-and-order—the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. We have been traveling this slippery slope toward a police state for some time, but under Trump 2.0, the descent towards outright tyranny is accelerating. Building on the expanded emergency powers he has claimed to wage war on immigration, wokene...

Members of the U.S. military are framed by an open gate at the wall along the U.S. and Mexico border near San Ysidro on March 21, 2025.  (Photo: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Posted by: John Phoenix "The legality of this move should certainly be under scrutiny," said one international relations expert. The New York Times reported on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a secret order directing the United States Department of Defense to use the American military to combat drug cartels in foreign nations. According to the Times, the order gives the military authorization to carry out operations against cartels both at sea and on foreign soil. What's more, the paper reported that "U.S. military officials h...