The “Killing Fields” of Palestine. We have a new Pol Pot, Benjamin Netanyahu.

In my opinion Israel has an easy fix:

Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Save Israel, save the people of Israel, put Netanyahu in prison. 

 “One soldier stationed in Gaza told Haaretz: ‘Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars.’ He added, ‘There’s no enemy, no weapons… I’m not aware of a single instance of return fire.”

Ryan and Dave are joined by Amir Tibon of Haaretz  to discuss reports of Gaza aid site massacres:

“A Haaretz exposé reveals that Israeli soldiers were ordered to shoot at Palestinians gathering for food, with commanders normalizing the killing of unarmed civilians.

An investigation published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed a deeply disturbing pattern of Israeli military conduct in Gaza, where soldiers and officers admitted to deliberately firing on Palestinian civilians gathering at food distribution centers. 

The report, based on direct conversations with multiple Israeli military personnel, details how live ammunition, mortars, grenade launchers, and tanks have routinely been used against unarmed crowds seeking humanitarian aid — a practice one soldier described bluntly as ‘a killing field.’

Since the establishment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution centers at the end of May, 549 Palestinians have been killed and over 4,000 injured near these sites, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Many of these deaths are reportedly the result of direct Israeli fire.

One soldier stationed in Gaza told Haaretz: ‘Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars.’ He added, ‘There’s no enemy, no weapons… I’m not aware of a single instance of return fire.”

According to testimonies, soldiers have been ordered to shoot at Palestinians approaching aid distribution sites both before they open and after they close, even when no threat was posed. 

‘We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away,’ the soldier said. ‘Sometimes we just charge at them from close range’…

Top Commander Linked to Attacks

A name that appears repeatedly in testimonies is Brigadier General Yehuda Vach, commander of Division 252. According to several soldiers and officers, Vach personally ordered the dispersal of Palestinians near UN aid trucks through direct gunfire.

‘This is Vach’s policy,’ one officer said. ‘But many of the commanders and soldiers accepted it without question. (The Palestinians) are not supposed to be there, so the idea is to make sure they clear out, even if they’re just there for food.’…

Systematic Dehumanization

The cumulative picture painted by the testimonies is one of systematic dehumanization. ‘We were constantly told there are no noncombatants in Gaza,’ one soldier recalled. ‘Apparently that message sank in among the troops.’

The number of fatalities near aid centers has spiked in recent weeks — 57 on June 11, 59 on June 17, and about 50 on June 24, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Despite the growing death toll, few internal investigations have occurred. 

The Israeli army’s Southern Command, under Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, has only conducted preliminary reviews and has not disciplined any officers involved in civilian deaths. 

According to a military source, 'The moral aspect is practically nonexistent. No one stops to ask why dozens of civilians looking for food are being killed every day.’

In response to the report, the Israeli army claimed: ‘Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization that starves the Gazan population and endangers them to maintain its rule… The IDF allows the American civil society organization (GHF) to operate independently and distribute aid to Gaza residents.'

However, the testimonies shared with Haaretz suggest that the problem is neither logistical nor procedural, but systemic and deliberate."

(The Palestine Chronicle)

The Palestine Chronicle

‘It’s a Killing Field’: Israeli Soldiers Admit to Firing on Hungry Civilians in Gaza

June 27, 2025 News

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

"Psychologist warns that corporate media is covering up Trump’s dementia" It’s obvious that the President of the United States is a madman with severe dementia. The next few years are critical to life on earth.

People with severe dementia can become violent. I have seen this in the Pocopson Home in Chester County PA. 

Ronald Reagan’s handlers kept him from not vetted questions. Reagan was an actor. He could read lines. Gorbachev knew Reagan had dementia. The thing is at that time Russia was not an enemy. 

Putin & Netanyahu have got to know Trump ain’t playin with a full deck. They can manipulate Trump. 

Trump feeds on an audience. I think his malignant narcissism will keep him in the public eye. I don’t think the White House can hide Trump’s dementia.

I noticed his right leg swing because my left leg is partly paralyzed from spinal cord stenosis. My foot flops & my leg doesn’t always go where I want it to go.  When I’m outside the house I use a cane. Trump should use a cane. He WILL FALL without a cane. 

There has to be millions of people who notice Trump’s dementia. It’s obvious now. It’s going to be impossible to hide. 

It’s obvious that the President of the United States is a madman with severe dementia. Republicans have nobody but Trump. Vance & Steven Miller are universally disliked. 

Ron DeSantis is already running for president. DeSantis is a sadist who watched people being tortured at Guantanamo & Iraq. 

Maybe it’s wishful thinking but as the Republican Party collapses it will be replaced with a new party. . That’s if we don’t all become radioactive dust. I think the next few years are critical to life on earth. 

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“Donald Trump’s cognitive decline is “undeniable.” Those were the words of Dr. John Gartner—founder of “Duty To Warn”— in my interview this week. Gartner then rightfully slammed corporate media for refusing to cover this. An emphatic Gartner noted, “We're in this crazy situation where the mad king has so much power that nobody wants to report on the fact that he's mad!”

Gartner has been raising red flags about Trump’s mental decline for years. In the lead up to the 2024 election, I interviewed Dr. Gartner twice about Trump’s obvious cognitive slide. In April 2024, he explained that “we're noticing deterioration almost every day” with Trump.”

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Trump is getting worse by the day!

Dean Obeidallah

IF TRUMP & STEVEN MILLER CAN SEND 10 AGENTS IN TACTICAL GEAR, DETONATE EXPLOSIVES AND BREAK INTO A HOME WHERE AMERICAN CITIZENS INCLUDING CHILDREN LIVE THEY CAN DO IT TO YOU

 

“Federal agents in full tactical gear detonated an explosive device to enter a home in Huntington Park, California, shocking the family inside. Security footage showed the blast shattering a window before agents stormed in. Jenny Ramirez, who lives there with her two young children, said no warning was given and everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. “You scared my son, my baby,” she told NBC through tears.”

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NEWS: Budget Bill in Major Trouble as Vote Scheduled for Today

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MEIDAS +

Court Victory Masks Political Freefall

As the President basks in Supreme Court victories and executive power grabs, his core supporters are peeling away—and the consequences may be deeper than he thinks.

MeidasTouch Network

Guest article by Michael Cohen

I know what it’s like to believe your own hype. I lived it, peddled it, and got burned by it. But what we’re seeing now from President Trump and his ever-shrinking circle of yes-men and enablers isn’t just self-delusion; it’s something far more dangerous. It’s the kind of bubble-thick denial that not only sinks presidencies but corrodes democracy from the inside out.

The president is not as popular as his Truth Social blurts or Fox News megaphone would have you believe. Sure, his loyal base is loud. It chants, rallies, and buys the flags. But that base? It’s fractured. And not in the usual political way. I’m talking about the kind of break that no executive order or Supreme Court ruling can mend.

Just look at the recent decision by the Court—a win for Trump, at least on the surface. The justices greenlit the administration’s push to dismantle automatic birthright citizenship, or at least allowed it to edge forward by slicing the scope of nationwide injunctions. In typical Trump fashion, he called it a "monumental victory for the Constitution" while spinning it as a restoration of executive authority. But read the ruling closely—it doesn’t validate the order itself. It just tells the courts to make their roadblocks a bit more local. The legal merits of overturning the 14th Amendment haven’t been settled, and spoiler alert: they won’t be in his favor—or at least I don’t believe so.

Now here’s where things get murkier for Trump. Instead of this decision bringing unity or strength to his movement, it’s exposing cracks. Within hours, civil rights groups were back in court, filing class action suits, launching new challenges, and gearing up for the long fight. Trump and company might’ve won a battle, but they’re losing the broader war—not in court, but with the American public.

Even his own supporters are beginning to whisper what others have shouted for years: maybe, just maybe, this isn’t what they signed up for. The Proud Boys, a far-right group whose violence and loyalty once seemed carved in stone, have turned on him. Their messages on Telegram weren’t vague. They weren’t subtle. “F*** this sh*t,” read one post after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear sites. These are the same people Trump once pretended not to know, only to later wink and embrace after they stormed the Capitol. Now they’re mocking him—posting doctored images, comparing his leadership to someone unfit to serve.

These folks aren’t peaceniks. They aren’t Democrats. They’re the people who believed Trump was their battering ram against the establishment. So when even they begin peeling away, when their meme-warfare turns inward, we need to ask: how much longer before the illusion of an unbreakable base completely shatters?

Now let’s tie this all together, because none of these moments exist in a vacuum. The president is emboldened by this court decision, convinced that the legal leash has finally been loosened. But at what cost? We have no functioning Congress—just a performative theater of chaos where Republicans eat their own and Democrats struggle to build consensus. That vacuum of legislative power only feeds Trump's thirst for unilateral action. But even unchecked authority, if built on shifting sands, will collapse.

The court’s ruling didn’t validate Trump’s vision; it just enabled it to go on a little longer without adult supervision. It also signaled to every future president, from either party, that courts might not be able to halt a rampaging executive if he can pick off lawsuits one state at a time. Justice Sotomayor called it a “travesty.” Justice Jackson, more pointed, warned of “an existential threat to the rule of law.”

And where is Congress? Nowhere. Cowering. Bickering. Performing for cameras instead of standing up for constitutional balance. The president pushes forward with the assumption that inertia equals endorsement, but the long arc of history has never been kind to those who rule by force rather than persuasion.

Here’s what’s coming if this keeps up: not a civil war, not martial law, but something more quietly tragic—cynicism. Disengagement. A generation of Americans who no longer believe the system works for them, because they’ve watched it be hijacked by a man who interprets legal setbacks as personal attacks and victories as divine anointment.

Even Trump’s biggest courtroom win can’t hide the truth: he’s losing his grip—not on power necessarily, but on people. And when the people stop believing, stop buying in, stop showing up... that’s when the real collapse begins.

So to the president, I offer this warning—not from a place of hatred, but from bitter experience: don’t confuse obedience with loyalty, and don’t mistake silence for support. Because when even the Proud Boys stop chanting your name and start trashing your image, it’s not just your legacy on the line; it’s the illusion of power you’ve spent years trying to perfect.

SERIOUSLY… WHERE ARE ALL THE NEW SUPPORTERS?
WE CANNOT DO THIS ALONE.

If you’re reading this, you’re already part of the resistance. You believe in truth. In justice. In dragging the roaches of corruption into the light. But let me be brutally honest: I can’t do this without you.

This isn't just another newsletter; it's a war cry. A movement. A battering ram aimed at the liars, the grifters, and the authoritarian wannabes hijacking our democracy. And we need to grow this platform into a voice so loud, so relentless, that they can’t spin it, silence it, or shut it down.

I’m calling on you—not passively asking, but urgently demanding—to fuel this fight. We are the last line of defense between democracy and dictatorship.

And yes, as a small token of my appreciation, the first 240 Founding Members will receive a signed, numbered, limited Substack edition of my New York Times bestseller, Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice Against His Critics. It’s not just a collector’s item. It’s a declaration of where you stood when history came calling.

But this isn’t about a book.
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How many generations back will eliminating birthright citizenship go? My grandparents migrated from Italy, My dad was born a U.S. citizen. In Coatesville PA all but a few White People and Black people’s citizenship goes back several generations.

 

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, which was joined by her fellow Democratic appointees, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship… That holding renders constitutional guarantees meaningful in name only for any individuals who are not parties to a lawsuit...

But as the old saying implies, if first they come for those without lawyers, then they will come for the rest of us. A partial king will seek to become a complete ruler. “I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish, and from there, it is not difficult to predict how this all ends,” Jackson wrote. “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”

FROM:

Mother Jones

“Disaster Looms”: Justice Jackson’s Warning for the Country

The Supreme Court allows presidents to do what judges have ruled illegal.

PEMA LEVY

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Spoken by a rebel: Dick the Butcher is a follower of Jack Cade, who leads a rebellion against King Henry VI.

A sign of chaos and rebellion: The rebels' wish to eliminate lawyers indicates their rejection of established order and the rule of law. Lawyers are seen as defenders of the existing power structure and an obstacle to their planned social upheaval.

Often misinterpreted: Though sometimes used as a criticism of lawyers, the line's context suggests Shakespeare was highlighting the importance of the legal profession in upholding the rule of law and defending against chaos:

• "This decision will allow the birthright citizenship executive order, which redefines birthright citizenship to mean citizenship for individuals born to parents who have legal status, to take effect in parts of the country. The case did not touch whether or not the executive order was constitutional."

BREAKING: Supreme Court Grants Trump Win in Birthright Citizenship/Nationwide Injunction Case

Aaron Parnas

Good morning everyone! Today’s morning newsletter is later than usual because I waited until some of the Supreme Court decisions were released. The Supreme Court will be issuing six major decisions, some more important than others, and I will edit this article to break them down as they come in, so make sure to subscribe to my Substack for full updates. Please consider subscribing today to support my work. I can only do this, and keep it free for all, with your support:

With that, here’s the news:

• In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court limited the use of a nationwide injunction that had blocked Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, handing a major legal win to his administration and potentially accelerating its broader executive agenda as related cases move through lower courts.
• Justice Barrett wrote for the majority stating: "Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts. The Court grants the Government’s applications for a partial stay of the injunctions entered below, but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue."
• This decision will allow the birthright citizenship executive order, which redefines birthright citizenship to mean citizenship for individuals born to parents who have legal status, to take effect in parts of the country. The case did not touch whether or not the executive order was constitutional.
• Senate Republicans are racing to unify around Trump’s sweeping tax and spending proposal—dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill”—which includes healthcare cuts, tax extensions, and increased border and military funding, but faces internal GOP concerns and budget rule obstacles just a week before the July 4 deadline.
• Republicans are pushing a major spending provision that would block states from regulating AI for the next decade, a move experts warn could worsen climate change due to the industry’s massive electricity demands.
• California Governor Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million over alleged defamation, accusing the network and host Jesse Watters of airing a misleadingly edited video to falsely claim he lied about calls with Trump—mirroring the Dominion case and pushing back against what he calls Fox’s pro-Trump misinformation.
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the US Navy will rename the USNS Harvey Milk to USNS Oscar V. Peterson, claiming the move depoliticizes ship naming by honoring a Medal of Honor recipient, though critics note the timing—during Pride Month—appears to intentionally target the legacy of LGBTQ+ rights activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk.
• Israeli court denies Prime Minister Netanyahu's request to delay his corruption trial hearings. This comes as Donald Trump was lobbying the Israeli court to drop charges against Netanyahu. 
• Environmental and immigration rights groups, along with a Native American tribe, are condemning Florida's plan to open a massive outdoor migrant detention camp in the Everglades—dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”—calling it inhumane due to extreme heat, dangerous wildlife, and poor conditions, as the state pushes forward under Governor DeSantis to detain thousands daily.
• Madonna “Donna” Kashanian, a 64-year-old Iranian woman who has lived in the U.S. for 47 years, was detained by ICE agents outside her New Orleans home despite having no criminal record and complying with immigration requirements; her arrest—following U.S. airstrikes in Iran—has sparked concern amid reports of multiple Iranians being taken into custody nationwide.
• After losing the Democratic primary to progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reportedly planning to run for NYC mayor as an independent.
• The U.S. and China have reached a deal to expedite rare earth shipments to America, aiming to ease trade tensions and restore disrupted supply chains critical to industries like automotive, aerospace, and defense.
• Nike expects to face about $1 billion in added costs due to Trump’s tariff policies and is responding by raising U.S. prices and shifting manufacturing away from China, as the company’s market value has dropped sharply over the past year.

More soon. 

Aaron

PUTIN goes to war with UKRAINE. In 3 YEARS RUSSIA HAS ONE MILLION CASUALTIES. TRUMP goes to WAR WITH IRAN. How long before the USA has ONE MILLION CASUALTIES?

 “A war with Iran will be interpreted throughout the region as a war against Shiism. Soon there will be retaliation. Lots of it. It will come at first with desultory missile strikes and then attacks carried out by elusive enemies on ships, military bases and installations. Steadily it will grow in volume and lethality. The death toll, including among the some 40,000 soldiers and Marines stationed in the Middle East, will mount. Ships, including aircraft carriers, will be targeted.”

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THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT

Chris Hedges: War With Iran

We are opening Pandora's box.

CHRIS HEDGES

JUN 22, 2025

We graduated high school in 1962 with Joe Dynesko. He showed us a photo of the Army company he graduated with, 100 boys. Three came back. He was an X-ray tech in Vietnam. 

I graduated in 1962. Some of the boys at our lunch table at the Scott Senior High School cafeteria came back from Vietnam in a box.

58,220 US service members died in the Vietnam War 75,000 classified as severely disabled and 23,214 as 100% disabled.Veterans

Heroin came home along with soldiers from Vietnam but that’s a different story:

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

NYT-“Gold Bars and Tokyo Apartments: How Money Is Flowing Out of China.” Nowhere near 1948 when Mao came. Kuomintang army stayed alive making heroin. CIA in Vietnam was financed with Kuomintang heroin. Soldiers came addicted to Coatesville PA VA hospital

In modern warfare most casualties are wounded not killed. Russia exceeded 1 million casualties in 3 years of war with Ukraine. 

• Over 1.8 million veterans have some degree of officially recognized disability as a result of the wars. Veterans of the post-9/11 wars account for more than half of the severely disabled veteran population.
• More than 40 percent of post-9/11 veterans – an extraordinarily high proportion – are entitled to lifetime disability payments, and this number is expected to increase to 54 percent over the next 30 years. By comparison, fewer than 25 percent of veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the first Gulf War have been certified as having a service-connected disability.
• The economic costs of caring for post-9/11 war vets will reach between $2.2 and $2.5 trillion by 2050.

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The funeral business in Russia is booming. “In total, between January and April 2025, funeral service providers in the country earned nearly 40bn rubles – (£380m), a 12.7% year-on-year increase, according to Rosstat, Russia’s federal state statistics service.”

“Sometimes, I check the name of the person we’re burying and realize it’s someone I know – someone I went to school with or met before,” said Nikolai, who asked that his last name be withheld for fear of government reprisal…

In total, between January and April 2025, funeral service providers in the country earned nearly 40bn rubles – (£380m), a 12.7% year-on-year increase, according to Rosstat, Russia’s federal state statistics service.

This month, Russia’s wartime toll of dead and wounded reached a historic milestone.

According to the British Ministry of Defence, more than one million Russian troops have been killed or injured since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022…

In just over three years, Russian fatalities are estimated to be five times higher than the combined death toll from all Soviet and Russian wars between the end of the second world war and the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

The war in Ukraine has proved far deadlier for the Kremlin than other recent conflicts: Russia’s losses are roughly 15 times greater than those suffered during the Soviet Union’s decade-long war in Afghanistan, and 10 times higher than in Russia’s 13-year war in Chechnya.

And it’s not just the dead returning in caskets – soldiers with amputated limbs and serious injuries are also coming home, driving a sharp rise in the production of prosthetic limbs.

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The

Guardian

One million and counting: Russian casualties hit milestone in Ukraine war

As grim tally of its invasion is reached, expansive propaganda campaign and state payouts are keeping grieving relatives onside

Pjotr Sauer

Sun 22 Jun 2025 01:00 EDT

Our tiny protest in Coatesville PA: