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On March 1, 1945, only six weeks before his death, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address to Congress that pointed toward a sweeping transformation of international relations.
With the Axis powers tottering toward defeat in World War II, Roosevelt reported that the recently concluded Yalta conference of Allied leaders had agreed upon “a common ground for peace.” It would “spell the end of the system of unilateral action, the exclusive alliances, the spheres of influence, the balances of power, and all the other expedients that have been tried for centuries―and have always failed.” These approaches would be replaced by “a universal organization,” a “permanent structure of peace upon which we can begin to build . . . that better world in which our children and grandchildren . . . must live, and can live.”
We are witnessing the latest iteration of a tired, dark performance. In the 1830s, Thomas "Daddy" Rice—the so-called "Father of Minstrelsy"—popularized a stage persona that relied on mockery, exaggerated buffoonery, and a calculated distortion of reality to entertain audiences at the expense of others. Today, we see that same spirit of performative deception in the rhetoric of Mr. Trump. It is a political theater built on the same foundations of distraction, distortion, and denial.
As a voice for the Fifth Estate—the independent journalists, organizers, and truth-seekers operating outside traditional media gates—we are here to pull back the curtain on this act. The script, however, is starting to wear thin.
The Broadcast Tantrum:
In his recent performance, Trump demanded that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoke the broadcast licenses of NBC and ABC. He accused these networks of being complicit in a "plot" simply because they refused to air his latest speech.
Police at Valley Fair Mall, outside Salt Lake City, Utah, said that Peter Michael Larsen approached a kiosk employee, asked about his religion, and then repeatedly stabbed him after learning he was Muslim. According to police and court documents, the suspect later told investigators that he had targeted the victim because of his religion and said he "intends to kill Muslims."
The victim survived after emergency surgery, and bystanders intervened, disarmed the suspect, and restrained him until police arrived. Prosecutors are pursuing attempted murder and related charges, and officials are treating the case as a suspected hate crime.
The attack occurred on Monday afternoon when the suspect, 48-year-old Michael Larsen, approached a kiosk worker inside the mall, asked personal questions, and then stabbed him 15 times. The victim, identified as Syed Sohail Uddin, was working at a jewelry kiosk at the time, according to the Times of India.
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections—likely to be held in October—or after. Conceding an inch from the roughly 70 percent of the territory his army currently occupies in Gaza will be considered a weakness by the majority of Israeli voters and would result in an open revolt within his extremist coalition.
He has made his intentions clear time and again. Recent statements by Israel's political leadership have only reinforced that reality, with officials insisting that Israel must maintain indefinite military dominance over the Strip and explicitly rejecting any framework that requires a full withdrawal of troops. To Netanyahu, the military footprint in Gaza is a permanent fixture, not a temporary bargaining chip.
Superman could leap a tall building in a single bound. That ain’t nothing compared to Josh Fox. Fox created the anti-fracking movement in a single movie, Gasland.
Until Josh showed up in Pennsylvania with a little point-and-shoot camera, no one knew what the hell hydraulic fracturing was. Then Fox filmed a neighbor lighting up the tap water with a match.
In his new film, The Welcome Table, which is having its premiere run on HBO right now, Fox has traded in his point-and-shoot with lush cinematography on five — count them: five! — continents. (Makes you wonder what you’re doing with your own life.)
But it ain’t some travelogue for the Discovery Channel. Fox has brilliantly, astonishingly, melded the burning issues of immigration and climate change. Even if you just think global warming is a bunch of hot air (pun intended), this documentary will just knock you out.
Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate co-sponsored a resolution supporting “a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
But today, the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion.
For politicians, it has become a box to check. According to data from the American Jewish Congress, every Democrat and most Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee currently say they support “the two-state solution.”
Whatever the rhetoric, ending Israeli control over Palestinians in the territories occupied since 1967 is not on the table.
Our GREEP #273 begins with world citizen ARTHUR KANEGIS and his fantastic film about the legendary Gary Davis who invented his own passport to travel the world as a man without a country.
We then join four great election protection activists—KEN BENNETT, JOHN BRAKEY, ALISON GREENE, RAY LUTZ——to cover the vast uncharted territory that is our upcoming 2026 voting.
Vote by mail, digital scanning, the grassroots reality in Arizona, drop boxes and the disenfranchisement of women are at the core of this amazing discussion.
From MITCHELL JONES of Food & Water Watch we take a deep dive into the Earth shaking mass movement against AI / data centers and how the public may actually win.
GREEP engineer STEVE CARUSO reports from the ground on the data center fight in central Ohio.
Co-host MYLA RESON joins DOROTHY REIK, and the exceptional GEORGE ANDERSON to dissect the broad AI/Data Center issue, including a first-hand report on how “very stupid” AI can be.
Green power pioneer KARL GROSSMAN warns of the insanity of Donald Trump running the regulation of nuclear power, in which he is personally invested.
“These are not social Dumocrats, these are hardcore, godless communists.” And they will “attack all religions, but in particular, Christianity. They always do. . . .
“It's like crazy. They will close your churches in this country. . . . They will kill your people and that's what they're about. They want to end religion. They have to end religion because their ideology doesn't work if you have strong religion. . . . This is the greatest threat to our country since its founding, in my opinion, 250 years ago, what's happening right now.”
This is our Dear Leader speaking, of course, ripping our seriously problematic political system to shreds and turning it into a cult, with Donald Trump as the cult leader, of course. Only he can save us, and by “us” I mean real Americans: the true believers in virtually nothing except what they’re told to believe, also known as MAGA,