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Once again, Keir Starmer has proved himself a man of dangerous instincts and shallow judgment — this time by backing Israel’s unilateral airstrikes on Iranian soil, cloaked in the tired rhetoric of “self-defence”.
But let’s be clear: this was not self-defence.
It was not a response to an imminent threat. It […]
Trump orders feds to ‘liberate Los Angeles’ (VIDEOS)
California’s governor has pushed back against the US president’s move to suppress pro-immigrant riots in his state
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US President Donald Trump has directed top federal officials to take “all such action necessary” to defeat Community defenders in Los Angeles, ordering the deployment of thousands of ICE deportation goons and National Guard troops.
Trump said he ordered federal agencies to quell the uprising, thus usurping dictatorial powers by sidelining the contrary California governor.
“A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday. “Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations ”
Trump’s comments follow two days of clashes between Community defenders and federal immigration agents, prompting Trump to authorize the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops.
LAPD GETTING PUSHED BACK AND KETTLED BY CROWD! LA not fucking with ICE, DHS, or any of these pigs.
— People's City Council – Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil) June 8, 2025
Tensions peaked Sunday afternoon as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Video footage showed National Guard troops facing off with protesters behind riot shields.
At one point tear gas was fired, but authorities have not confirmed which or all agencies used lethal force or what triggered the escalation.
Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the federal “takeover” of California’s National Guard as unconstitutional and politically motivated, formally demanding that President Trump withdraw the order and return control of the troops to the state.
Los Ángeles, CA – Protestors have successfully shut down part of the 101 freeway as thousands march through the streets to protest ICE and President Trumps ordering of 2,000 National Guardsmen.
“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” he claimed on X. “This is a serious breach of state sovereignty – inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”
The unrest began Friday and intensified Saturday in the cities of Paramount and Compton, following multiple immigration raids in which over 100 people were arrested.
Demonstrators attempted to block Border Patrol vehicles, and some threw rocks and debris at officers. Federal agents responded with tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bang grenades.
Homeland Security officials accused local politicians of failing to uphold public safety. “Instead of rioting, they should be thanking ICE officers every single day who wake up and make our communities safer,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
Senator Bernie Sanders described the deployment as “a president moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism.”
While previous National Guard deployments in Los Angeles were initiated by state officials, this marks the first federal override since the 1960s civil rights era.
…Quote from LA uprising in 2000…
It remains unclear how long the troops will remain in the city. Defense Secretary Hegseth warned that active-duty Marines could be deployed next if the violence continues.
“Approximately 500 Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines at Twentynine Palms, California, are in a prepared to deploy status should they be necessary to augment and support the DoD’s protection of federal property and personnel efforts,” the US Northern Command announced in a statement on Sunday.
Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite.
A MintPress News study finds that coverage of Thunberg in The New York Times and Washington Post has dwindled from hundreds of articles per year to barely a handful, precisely as she widens her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza, which the Swedish activist has labeled a “genocide.”
Not Your Puppet
Greta Thunberg was once a media darling. Organizing a climate strike at her local school when she was just fifteen, she shot to fame and was quickly embraced by the establishment.
In 2019, she was invited to the European Union Parliament and received a standing ovation from the politicians and diplomats in attendance.
She also spoke in front of the British government. Yet even as she told them that they were a pack of “liars” responsible for “one of the greatest failures of humankind,” the young Swede was applauded in a patronizing manner.
Then Environmental Secretary Michael Gove admitted being moved by her words, stating, “When I listened to you, I felt great admiration, but also responsibility and guilt. I am of your parents’ generation, and I recognize that we haven’t done nearly enough to address climate change and the broader environmental crisis that we helped to create.”
Her message of the urgent need to address the impending climate crisis was one that was palatable to authorities, who attempted to co-opt her with access and accolades.
In 2019, despite being only 16 years old, she won the Swedish Woman of the Year award and was named by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s 100 most powerful women.
Time magazine even awarded her its prestigious Person of the Year, for, in their words, “sounding the alarm about humanity’s predatory relationship with the only home we have,” “bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders,” and for “showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads.”
While conservatives were hostile to her from the start, more liberal institutions showered her with attention and praise.
The New York Times, for example, described her as “a modern-day Cassandra for the age of climate change,” and noted that her work had “inspired huge children’s demonstrations” across the planet.
Yet Thunberg refused to be turned into a mascot for the elites, and the co-optation failed.
As a result, coverage of her in elite media outlets has plummeted to almost nothing, even as she continues to fight for global causes and risks her life trying to break the illegal blockade of Gaza……
“.. Did Epstein sell Israel the tapes of his pedophile island where the whole Western Elite flocked to party, including, says Musk, Donald Trump?. which would explain why they all ‘approve’ the Gaza Genocide “
Both Trump and Musk continue paying and supporting the Genocide of the indigenous Palestinians by the terrorist theocratic Israeli State
Trump-Musk Big Bro bust-up: Ignore the noise, focus on the signal… When the 2 most powerful andwealthy men on Earth swop criminal revelations, what does it say about their country?
Two very rich and very powerful and very big American egos have had a very public and very loud cat fight.
US President Donald Trump, arguably the single most powerful politician in the world, and his now former “buddy-in-chief” Elon Musk, certifiably the single richest oligarch on (for now) this planet, have “torched” (Wall Street Journal) their occasionally exuberant bromance of almost a year in a “stunning” (Bloomberg) and “spectacular” (New York Times) finale of fiery mutual recrimination.
Say what you will about oligarchic techno-capitalism, but it can be entertaining.
Using their own social media platforms, Musk and Trump have gone after each other with brutal reputational attacks, griping of the “You owe me!” – “No, you me!” variant, and high-value threats to do each other economic and political damage.
MEANWHILE.. on the streets:
On June 3, a crowd drove federal agents out of Minneapolis following an attempted raid. On June 4, people confronted ICE in Chicago and Grand Rapids. Today, there are clashes with ICE in Los Angeles.Trump has signed a memorandum deploying 2000 National Guard to Los Angeles—the next step in his power grab…. Stand up in solidarity. https://crimethinc.com/posters/the-border-is-everywhere
Musk claims that he is greatly concerned over America’s exploding and unsustainable national debt.
Since Trump’s Republican majority in the Senate is small, Musk’s open support for the bill’s vocal opponents there is a real political embarrassment for the White House at least, if not even a serious threat.
US sovereign debt, moreover, is a real and very serious problem with dire economic and geopolitical implications; and estimates put the costs of Trump’s bill at 3.3 trillion additional debt over the next ten years: Musk has a factual point.
Yet there also is the fact that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill foresees cutting subsidies for buying Musk’s Tesla cars (among other EVs), amounting to an estimated loss of $1.2 billion for Tesla.
It can be complicated in that place between conservative ideology, pure and simple, and the unrelenting will to milk the public for yourself and your shareholders.
Musk also “revealed” – if that is the word – that Donald Trump features on the client list of the sinister financier, pedophile, mass sex criminal, and most likely intelligence-connected elite blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein, who conveniently committed suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019.
To make it count, Musk, as if returning to his former Centrist political self, suggested impeaching Trump and founding a new party to contest the great blusterer’s grip on “the 80% in the middle.
Trump shot back by warning Musk that his “billions” in government contracts could melt away like the snows of yesteryear,
Which made Musk threaten to stop carrying US astronauts into orbit, that is, in effect – since the volatile oligarch is America’s de facto monopolist – shut down space for the US.
Por: Jorge Sánchez Miles de personas saldrán a las calles para denunciar la creciente militarización promovida por la Unión Europea y la OTAN, en el marco de una política de escalada bélica que desvía recursos públicos hacia el gasto militar.
En España, el gobierno del PSOE y Sumar ha anunciado un aumento repentino de 10.000 […]
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