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We start GREEP #276 in Ukraine with the Green Party’s HOWIE HAWKINS and an opposing view from VINNIE DISTEFANO, both of whom ask “When will this awful war end?”

For the fabulous new film SELMA SISTERS we hear from CHARLES THOMAS, JR., and LISA LIDDLE about the nitty-gritty of the legendary Selma March.

We further speak with DENISE JARIGAN-HOLT & PLEZE MOORE about risking their lives as young people in this monumental civil action.

From ANDREA MILLER we hear about new tools including “Make it Fast” and “See Something Say Something” aiming to stop election theft this fall.

Long-time participants STEVE CARUSO, MYLA RESON and JOHN STEINER add critical links & feedback to the dialogue.

For our on-going HOMEBREW2 discussion on AI we’re joined by founding GodFathers LEE FELSENSTEIN and TATANKA BRICCA, whose historic perspective is completely priceless.

From media maven DAVID SALTMAN we get a haunting question about librarians.

For over a year, we’ve tracked a global hybrid warfare operation combining cyberattacks, financial manipulation, satellite technology, political influence, and foreign election interference into a single interconnected system.

Then last week, six House Democrats crossed party lines to approve the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The $1.15 trillion defense policy bill outlines sweeping military funding, includes Section 219 directing the Pentagon to expand and accelerate joint military research, development, and industrial co-production with Israel, and incorporates the SAVE Act.

If it feels like nothing the Democrats are doing makes sense, welcome to the club.

Despite the overwhelming unpopularity of the war with Iran, continued funding for Israel, and the SAVE Act, six Democrats helped ensure that the NDAA passed by a vote of 216–212.

Seven Republicans voted against the legislation, meaning that if Hakeem Jeffries had whipped his caucus, the bill would have failed.

Those Democrats need to answer for their votes.

“Nation” equals identity. I’m an American! Hurray!

It’s almost embarrassing to confess this, but yeah, that’s me (or used to be me), sitting back in my easy chair, waving a flag. My “nationality” is such a profound, lifelong part of who I am I rarely actually questioned it. At best I shrugged, then momentarily glared in anger at . . . the government, the media, whoever. Why do we have a trillion-dollar military budget, or a president who wants to up it to one point five trillion? Why do we always have an enemy or two or three, who isn’t as human as we are and must be defeated, or at least arrested?

At least being an American comes with a fair amount of rights – freedom of speech, freedom to question authority, and so-o-o much more – and usually I embrace those rights with a sense of hope that the future will be saner. But that sense of hope has been ebbing lately. I have come to realize over the years that I am no longer just an American. I’m a citizen of Planet Earth.

Abuse against women is not a partisan problem, it is a men problem. Pretending otherwise is both dishonest and strategically stupid, because the moment you claim your men are safer, you hand the other side a gotcha it will use forever.

We find ourselves in uncharted and perilous territory regarding executive ethics and market integrity. With the recent launch of Trump Media & Technology Group’s high-priced subscription tier—granting Wall Street elite and high-frequency trading firms millisecond-early access to market-moving Truth Social posts—a sitting President of the United States has effectively commercialized his own official communications channel. Charging six figures a month for a fractional-second advantage on executive statements is not merely a creative corporate revenue stream; it is a direct assault on the fundamental fairness of American capital markets. 

Anna Liedtke, 25, a German journalist, has given her first interview about the criminal complaint she filed in Israel, that was published by 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻, after she went public last December. The Global Sumud Flotilla spoke about her rape in Israeli detention. Liedtke was one of the activists aboard a humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters on 8 October, has filed a criminal complaint with Israeli authorities stating she was raped while in captivity.

Liedtke said there is no reason for me to be ashamed. Adding, whenever we are silent, they will do it to another person. She knows other activists were raped but were afraid or embarrassed to talk about it. But that was what exactly happened to her, according to her interviews and the complaint

Clean energy grants canceled based on how states voted

The Trump administration has acknowledged in court documents that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects "based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state" — in this case, 16 states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

The statement contradicts repeated assertions by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and other officials that the projects were canceled because they did not adequately advance the nation's energy needs or had other problems that made them a poor investment of taxpayer dollars.

Projects that were cut were located in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state. All 16 targeted states supported Harris, but Wright had claimed the cuts were "business decisions" based on whether the projects were a good use of taxpayer money Court filings by the Trump administration now show that those public statements were knowingly false.

Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a nuclear holocaust.

The nine nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea), possessing some 12,100 nuclear warheads, are all busily upgrading and expanding their nuclear weapons arsenals at an accelerating pace. Nuclear weapons spending rose to an all-time high of $119 billion in 2025―a 19 percent increase over the preceding year. The U.S. government alone, which accounted for more than half of this spending, is embarked on a $1.7 trillion, decades-long nuclear weapons buildup.