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A new report published by Quds News Network, based on data from the Harvard Dataverse, reveals that approximately 377,000 people from Gaza’s pre‑genocide population of 2.227 million have gone missing since October 2023—with an estimated half of them believed to be children.

The report was authored by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb of Ben‑Gurion University, who used data‑driven analysis and spatial mapping to examine how Israeli attacks on civilians and Israel’s aid blockade have caused a dramatic decline in Gaza’s population.

Professor Garb argues that the actual number of people killed may be far higher than the official death toll, which stood at over 74,000 as of May 2026.

Maps in the report, based on Israeli military estimates, indicate that the remaining population in Gaza City is around one million, with 500,000 in the al‑Mawasi “safe zone” and 350,000 in central Gaza—totaling approximately 1.85 million.

Solar capacity up 20 percent from last summer

Utility-scale solar generation is expected to increase 19 percent this summer compared with last summer, reflecting a 20 percent increase in capacity, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Wind generation is forecast to increase 10 percent year-over-year, and EIA also forecast small increases of approximately 5 percent in hydro and and 1 percent in nuclear generation.

The report projects a decrease in coal production, "across all producing regions through at least December 2027," This summer coal consumption is expected to decrease by 11 percent compared with the same period last year." Generation from natural gas is expected to remain unchanged.

From executive madness to stolen elections, media attack & extraterrestrials, GREEP #270 blows our minds.

With first-person persistence MYLA RESON reports on her viewing of the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center.

We then join GREG PALAST in diving into the realities of protecting the 2026 election.

From RAY MCCLENDON in Atlanta we hear that it’s now the government (and ICE) as well as the KKK that’s targeting voters of color and depriving them of their vote.

From ALISON GREENE uncovering actual faked "Ghost Voters" to tilt the results and what they're doing about it. Tell your SOS to check it. We hear about the lethal impact of money on what’s left of our democracy.

Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO joins MIKE HERSH, DOROTHY REIK, LYNN FEINERMAN, PAUL NEWMAN & MORE to raise the alarm on the MAGA assault.

The legendary WADE RATHKE updates us on the FBI’s latest assault on voter registration in Ohio and elsewhere.

CBS legend DAVID SALTMAN then takes us deep into the destruction of CBS, for whom he once produced in synch with Walter Cronkite, & now demands our attention for PRO PUBLICA.

Although the U.S. labor movement is sometimes depicted as hawkish and xenophobic, this characterization ignores its repeated attempts to grapple with the global problem of war.

On June 9, 2026, for example, delegates at the annual national convention of the AFL-CIO, the 15-million member labor federation with which most American unions are affiliated, voted to adopt Resolution 9, “We Want a Just and Peaceful World.”

Declaring that “working people must never be treated as pawns in geopolitical power struggles,” the resolution promises that “we will stand with workers and communities harmed by war” and “will advocate for an end to wars that threaten workers’ livelihoods, security and rights.”

Just when the Democrats thought they had it clinched because of high gas prices from the “little excursion” in Iran, Trump pulls off one of the most brilliant political moves of the last 60 years: a UFC match on the White House Lawn.

It’s a double genius move, like a 1/6 in Wordle. (I’m translating UFC into Manhattan-ese.)

Think about it. First, on Agent Orange’s 80th birthday, instead of everyone talking about a guy who makes Joe Biden sound like Diogenes, we are distracted that our President is a walking coronary wrapped in a babbling Baconator, with ankles the size of the FIFA Peace Prize, who bumbles the names of the countries he wants to bomb or tariff. Instead, we are spending our time bitching about the bong-hitting masses who think Trump is cool as sh*t because he’s hosting that most patriotic of American sports: the UFC.

Coastal metrosexuals and other sissy elites hate the UFC because it stars big macho guys kicking the crap out of each other. It’s the lovechild of martial arts and threepenny opera. 

Donald Trump, who managed to evade the draft during the Vietnam War, said recently that he wanted to be a ‘wartime president.’ He was clearly thinking of brass bands, fancy uniforms, medals and snappy honor guards to compliment his continental-sized ego.

Well, he got his wish, and it’s been a disaster. He fired some of his best senior officers who would not kowtow to his amateur schemes, threw monkey wrenches into the Pentagon machinery, and used the US military to conduct illegal assassinations of foreign figures.

‘Careful what you wish for’ should have been engraved on his Oval Office desk. As the renowned general, King Pyrrhus of Epirus (ancient Albania) famously said after a series of battlefield victories against the Romans, ‘one more such victory and I am lost.’ Hence the often-used expression, ‘Pyrrhic Victory.’

Trump’s little war against Iran and Lebanon with his favorite ally amounts to a classic Pyrrhic victory. A few thousand bystanders died, missile supplies were exhausted, Iran was pounded by the US and Israel, and billions of dollars were wasted in the shootout. Iran estimates $300 billion in damages. For what?

Yikes, it’s déjà vu all over again. I got an email and then an invitation to a zoom radio broadcast. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group I knew and had actually done some workshops with in Youngstown some years ago, had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department over voter registration. Was this the ACORN voter registration attack of 2008 once again?

The news report indicated that 125 FBI agents had swooped in on the organization taking computer hard drives and other records, visiting canvassers and others at their homes, and more as part of their broad subpoena and investigation. Without sharing details, the investigation was targeting their voter registration efforts. Other reports also underlined their opposition to efforts by the legislature to require photo identification for voters to access the polls.

This is the same, but different. 

The recent "UFC Freedom 250" spectacle hosted by Donald Trump on the White House lawn served as a disturbing stage for the erosion of public decency. During this event, fighter Josh Hokit chose to use his platform to direct a grotesque, misogynistic insult at former First Lady Michelle Obama, baselessly labeling her a man. The immediate roar of laughter and approval from the surrounding crowd was a grim reflection of a culture that has been conditioned to celebrate the dehumanization of Black women. 

​It is critical to observe the reaction—or lack thereof—from those in power. Donald Trump stood by and permitted this vitriol to define the atmosphere of a taxpayer-funded event on the South Lawn. While UFC CEO Dana White eventually condemned the remarks as "nasty and false," the silence from Donald Trump and the White House was deafening.