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"There were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all." — Edmund Burke
In our recent piece, "The $50 Billion Windfall: Shadows of the 'Epstein War' and the Fight for Constitutional Accountability," we exposed how shadow networks and "national security" redactions are used to shield the powerful from the consequences of their actions. Today, that same shield of immunity is being used to mask some of the most heinous acts imaginable against the most vulnerable.
As we fight in Ohio to pass the Protecting Ohioans’ Constitutional Rights initiative, we must recognize that the "immunity" we are fighting is not just a legal technicality in a local courtroom. It is a global doctrine of state-sanctioned violence.
We open GREEP Zoom #264 with MIMI GERMAN & a horrendous video that actually supports men raping women.
This terrible tragedy is further opposed by insights from radio host LYNN FEINERMAN.
Regular listener DR. RUTH STRAUS offers us all a message of solidarity.
Co-host MYLA RESON shares her observations on how the community should respond.
Regular Minnesota supporter HEDY TRIPP provides here own message of support.
Mimi and Lynn will soon be convening a separate zoom.
With JOHN BRAKEY we dive into the intricacies of election protection, starting in Arizona.
John is joined former Arizona Secretary of State KEN BENNETT with his unique insider insights.
We’re further joined by the powerful California-based election protection activist RAY LUTZ.
Finally, author/activist LINDA GUNTER shares her latest insights into the failure of the “Peaceful Atom” and its catastrophic so-called “Nuclear Renaissance.”
Engineer ARNIE GUNDERSEN explains the turning-point engineering flaws at Michigan’s impossible-to-reopen Palisades nuke.
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war—but the reality is more complex.
Not that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would object to such an arrangement. On the contrary, his relentless drive for military escalation suggests precisely that. After all, his openly declared quest for a “greater Israel” would require exactly this kind of permanent militarism—endless expansion and sustained regional destruction.
However, Israel cannot sustain an open-ended fight on multiple fronts indefinitely.
Israeli officials boast about fighting on “seven fronts,” but many of these are, in military terms, largely imaginary rather than sustained battlefields.
The real wars, however, are entirely of Israel’s making: from the genocide in Gaza to its unprovoked regional wars.
Free expression is protected in the UK, but it “does not include critiquing Israel.” BBC News reported on April 11, 2026, that more than 500 people were arrested during a demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action in central London. A woman wearing a pin with the Palestinian flag was prevented from entering a restaurant in London and was asked to remove it.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240715-uk-pub-refuses-to-admit-woman-wearing-palestine-pin/
Dr. Rahma Aladwan is still in jail in the UK. She was arrested on March 26, 2026, and is currently facing multiple charges related to supporting Palestinian resistance and alleged hate offenses. Her arrest follows a series of social media posts and public remarks that led to her being taken into custody. She is expected to appear before a London court later.
Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, a 31-year-old British Palestinian trainee surgeon, has become one of the most talked‑about figures in the UK this year. She is also known for her work in trauma and orthopedic care.
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For decades, Iranian opposition movements and their Western backers have relied on a familiar toolkit to induce political change: economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, information campaigns, assassinations, and at times military confrontation. From a critical perspective, these instruments are not simply failed democratization tools; rather, they can also be understood as instruments of coercive geopolitical power that often impose significant costs on civilian populations while simultaneously reinforcing authoritarian states through external threat narratives and internal securitization dynamics.
As the world watches the high-stakes diplomatic standoff in Islamabad tonight, a second, more insidious war is being waged in the ledgers of the global financial elite. While Ohioans feel the sting of "grocery-store inflation" and rising energy costs driven by Middle Eastern instability, the institutions at the heart of the "Banker Elites War" are reporting record-breaking profits. Since the onset of what many are now calling the "Epstein War," the largest global banks have reported over $50 billion in quarterly profits. This isn’t a sign of a healthy economy; it is a windfall harvested from global chaos. We cannot have true accountability in our streets or our courts if we ignore the shadow networks funding the disruption of our constitutional order.
Once upon a time there was a magical little country named Lebanon. It was created by French imperialists out of the post-World War 1 wreckage of the Ottoman Empire as a mountainous stronghold for Levantine Maronite and Orthodox Christians.
Imperial Russia sought to assert its influence as defender of Lebanon’s Christians. The British and French thwarted Russia’s efforts and created two new states, Syria and Jordan. After the war, Israel was created by Britain. Some 750,000 Arabs who had been living in what was known as Palestine and Syria were driven from their homes by Jewish settlers. The Levant’s map was redrawn. What was to have been an Arab state was annexed by an expanding Israel and British-influenced Jordan, with little Lebanon sitting amid the geopolitical leftovers. Sixty percent of Jordan’s population was Palestinian. Nearly 60% of Lebanon’s population was Sunni and Shiite Muslim. The rest was Orthodox, Catholic, Druze and Armenian.