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Trump State Department Moves to Deport Trita Parsi

Trump State Department Moves to Deport Trita Parsi

by | Jun 13, 2026 |

President Trump’s State Department has reportedly opened an investigation into Trita Parsi, an Iranian-Swedish international relations writer, political analyst, vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and critic of the administration’s war against Iran. A Trump official informed the Free Press that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been “extremely clear” about his intention to focus on individuals who “support adversaries of the United States” and...

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America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied

America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied

by | Jun 11, 2026 |

“I love the inflation.”—Donald Trump (June 2026) America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats the American people as little more than collateral damage in its pursuit of power, profit and control. We have been policed, surveilled, taxed, indebted, manipulated, censored, tracked, searched, silenced and sold...

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Trump Violates Humanitarian Law: the Bombing of a Water Facility in Iran

Trump Violates Humanitarian Law: the Bombing of a Water Facility in Iran

by | Jun 11, 2026 |

During what has been described as tit-for-tat attacks, on June 10 the US bombed the drinking water supply in the Bemani district of Sirik, Hormozgan province, Iran. The 500-cubic-meter tank and a 2,000-cubic-meter reservoir provided water for 20,000 Iranians. “Targeting civilian water infrastructure raises serious humanitarian concerns,” the Iranian Consulate in Mumbai, India said. “The incident occurred amid a wave of reported explosions in Iran’s south, including several powerful blasts...

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A Requiem For Privacy

A Requiem For Privacy

by | Jun 11, 2026 |

When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national intelligence is the head of the umbrella agency that gathers intelligence from the 17 federal spying agencies and from that data prepares and delivers the president’s daily briefing. Sec. 702, which permits warrantless spying,...

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Battle of the Missiles — The Apache Scam

Battle of the Missiles — The Apache Scam

by | Jun 10, 2026 |

A truly bizarre series of events off the coast of Iran today that in my opinion were entirely provoked, if not staged, by the US. It started with multiple news reports that a US Army Apache helicopter had been shot down in the Persian Gulf but the two pilots emerged unscathed. What the hell was an Apache helicopter doing? The AH-64 Apache is a twin-engine attack helicopter primarily designed for anti-armor warfare, close air support, and armed reconnaissance. Apparently it was conducting...

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Will Trump Break JFK’s Agreement on Cuba?

Will Trump Break JFK’s Agreement on Cuba?

by | Jun 10, 2026 |

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia) came within an inch of all-out nuclear war with each other. To resolve the crisis, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev entered into an agreement in which the United States agreed not to invade Cuba in return for Russia’s decision to withdraw nuclear missiles it had installed in Cuba. For more than 50 years, both Russia and the United States have complied with that agreement. Russia has never...

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Iran Takes its Chances with War

Iran Takes its Chances with War

by | Jun 9, 2026 |

The US war with Iran has moved beyond its initial phase to an emerging new one — one in which Iran implicitly stakes its chances on the next phase being war. Most likely this will be in abbreviated episodes of limited war, but possessing nevertheless a potential to widen regionally, should the US (and Israel) elect to sharply escalate. The new phase involves risk of course, yet Iran holds the high cards of an ability to impose disproportionately heavier damage upon Gulf infrastructure as...

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Iran Will Respond To Ceasefire Breaches Wherever Those Are

Iran Will Respond To Ceasefire Breaches Wherever Those Are

by | Jun 9, 2026 |

President Trump and his partner in crime Netanyahoo have tried to draw Iran into a ceasefire trap. It was hoped for that a bit by bit escalation, like Israeli bombing in Lebanon, would be left without a response by Iran. Iran however did not fall for that scheme. It had been agreed that the ceasefire in the war on Iran  includes Lebanon and other fronts between the imperialist and resistance parties. It is either a ceasefire for all or a ceasefire for none. A week ago, when Netanyahoo...

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The Absurd Insistence that Nobody Criticize Erika Kirk

The Absurd Insistence that Nobody Criticize Erika Kirk

by | Jun 8, 2026 |

On September 18 of last year — eight days after her husband Charlie Kirk was murdered — Erika Kirk was appointed by the board of Turning Point USA to succeed her husband as the chief executive officer of Turning Point USA. Turning Point USA is a highly funded and influential organization in America, and it has a focus on helping determine who is elected to what political offices, as well as what measures politicians support and oppose. Since Erika Kirk became CEO of Turning Point, employees...

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We Should Not ‘Integrate’ Our Military with Any Foreign Nation!

We Should Not ‘Integrate’ Our Military with Any Foreign Nation!

by | Jun 8, 2026 |

Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA’s Section 224, the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” would “integrate” the Israeli military with our own, fusing technology, production, intelligence-sharing, and more. As Ben Freeman...

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Israel Crosses Iran’s Redline in a Mission to Prevent Trump From Signing a Peace Deal with Iran

Israel Crosses Iran’s Redline in a Mission to Prevent Trump From Signing a Peace Deal with Iran

by | Jun 8, 2026 |

Nine days after Iran warned the West, Israel in particular, that any further attacks on Beirut would result in Iran retaliating against Israel, Israel hit the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. The attack on Sunday afternoon sent plumes of smoke rising over the suburb, with strikes targeting two apartments in two buildings. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the attack in the Dahiyeh district, saying it was in retaliation for an earlier Hezbollah strike on Israel. At least two...

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Iran Needs Escalation To Avoid The Ceasefire Trap

Iran Needs Escalation To Avoid The Ceasefire Trap

by | Jun 5, 2026 |

A typical US tactic against a strategic target is to ‘boil the frog’ by slowly increasing the temperature of the water it is sitting it. The conflict in Ukraine is an good example for this. Hits against Russia, directed by the CIA, are escalated bit by bit while Russia is reluctant to more severe deterrence measures. The current war on Iran is another example. The US is insisting on a ceasefire while trying to erode Iran’s leverage with economic strangulation. Iran’s major weapon, the blockade...

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House Votes to Terminate Iran War, While Preparing to Vote to Ramp Up the Ukraine War

House Votes to Terminate Iran War, While Preparing to Vote to Ramp Up the Ukraine War

by | Jun 4, 2026 |

On May 25, I wrote about how the Republican leadership of the United States House of Representatives had put off until the House would return from recess in June a vote on ending the Iran War. It had appeared that the war termination resolution would win a majority vote on the House floor Here is an update. On Wednesday, with the House having come back into session this first week of June, the vote on the Iran War resolution took place. The resolution passed by a vote of 215 to 208. Breaking...

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If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It

If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It

by | Jun 4, 2026 |

“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning.”—Donald Trump Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. If this is what winning looks like, America can’t afford much more of it. We are losing ground economically. We are losing credibility abroad. We are losing tourists, workers, stability, trust, constitutional guardrails, and whatever remained of the illusion that the government answers to “we the people.” The tourism economy is taking a hit, with...

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Conservatives Miss the Point on Marijuana

Conservatives Miss the Point on Marijuana

by | Jun 4, 2026 |

Medical marijuana is legal in 40 states and Puerto Rico. Recreational marijuana is legal in 24 states. Both are legal in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Many conservatives are very upset about this. Naomi Schaefer Riley is one such conservative. She is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on child welfare and foster care issues. She is also a senior fellow at the Independent...

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Gitmo and Torture Revisited

Gitmo and Torture Revisited

by | Jun 4, 2026 |

America’s longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Originally, the feds had labeled Osama bin Laden as the ringleader. Yet, rather than charging and arresting bin Laden, in order to keep him quiet it sent a team of Navy...

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Secretary of War Crimes

Secretary of War Crimes

by | Jun 11, 2026

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likes to be referred to by the title secretary of war. Given his answer to a question at a Wednesday press conference at MacDill...

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