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Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire recently. Is that a good thing for one person to have that much wealth and influence? How feasible are Musk's plans to build spaceships to go the moon, Mars, or other areas of the solar system? 

There are some good reasons the US have not gone back to the moon since 1972. Anything can go wrong on a mission as we have seen with Apollo 13, which failed to get to the moon but managed to return to Earth with its astronauts still alive. 

There's not much reason to go. There's no life there or no way to grow anything. There's no oil or mining prospects there. The whole moon would have to be covered with gold to reap the enormous expenditures of financing a mission there. Even the worst land on Earth is better than the best land on the moon or Mars. It would certainly be much cheaper to build data centers here.

Every country on earth was subject to colonization and/or had a history of colonizing other countries. Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people engage in. Here, I want to bring in an issue less discussed in this massive literature, one that challenges colonization via activities that sustain humans and nature or what we can dub “eco-sumud” (ecological steadfastness). 

Last July, whistleblowers came forward regarding an NSA-authorized audit conducted in December 2024 showing Kamala Harris won in a landslide. According to those whistleblowers, the findings were buried to protect wealthy pedophiles on both sides of the political aisle from a Harris DOJ.

Last week, on May 8, 2026, Dr. Steven Greer held a major disclosure press conference in which he discussed meeting with one of the most senior figures in national security from a prior administration, as well as Epstein’s role as an intelligence asset:

“He has the audio and video of some files from Epstein island of key people in our intelligence and national security system… that are compromised and are being actively blackmailed… we’re talking blackmailing officials at the highest level that is interfering in the function of government. So that is what Epstein island was it was a honeypot set up by the intelligence community to entrap certain high-value targets and then control them through that process of blackmail.”

There are two types of racism in the west: the kind that’s considered acceptable in polite liberal society, and the kind that’s widely frowned upon.

The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it fine and normal to drop bombs on Muslim families overseas. The kind which sees starvation sanctions as a minor issue whose pros and cons are assessed solely on the basis of whether they will be successful or unsuccessful in achieving regime change. The kind which views imperialist extraction from the global south as the natural order of the world, with centrists and progressives squabbling only about how evenly that plunder should be distributed among westerners.

The unacceptable type of racism is the kind which affects other westerners. The kind whose consequences western liberals have to see.

Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan honor the musicians who refused Trump's use of their artistic material and dropped out of the Freedom 250 Great American State Fair this 4th of July.

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We open GREEP #271 by commemorating the Lakota victory over G.A. Custer on the prairie, June 25, 1876.  We also curse W.T. Sherman for using the mass slaughter of the buffalo as a genocidal tool to destroy the Indigenous.

From HEDY TRIPP we hear of ICE’s latest outrages in Minnesota.

From ANTHONY FLACCAVENTO we hear of RUBI’s urban/rural coalition for preservation of democracy.

We get great input from SUE DORFMAN, ANNA GYORGY, DOROTHY REIK AND OTHERS.

The great RAY MCCLENDON then updates us on the stunning victory of relational organizers to defeat the Legislature’s attempt to gerrymander out a majority-minority district in Georgia.

From ALISON GREENE we hear more about urban workers who can crossover to rural constituency building.

From legendary organizer ABE BONOWITZ we are buoyed by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s opposition to the death penalty.

KPFK Chair TATANKA BRICCA underlines the growing demand for the release of “secrets” ranging from JFK, UFOs and a “movement of conscience” now sweeping the country.

Mona Khalil was not a high-ranking Hezbollah fighter; she was a renowned Lebanese sea-turtle conservationist who was killed following an Israeli airstrike that struck her home on Mansouri Beach near Tyre in southern Lebanon. Multiple independent news outlets have reported on the incident.

What Happened?

The strike hit her beachside home, known as the Orange House, during a series of intensified Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon. She was critically wounded and died days later in the hospital.

Her age: Reports list her as 76 or 77 at the time of her death.

Others injured: Her housekeeper and assistant was also injured but survived.

Why Was She Killed?

There is no evidence that Mona Khalil was personally targeted. All available reporting indicates that her death occurred as part of broader Israeli military retaliatory strikes in southern Lebanon after the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) suffered significant casualties while fighting Hezbollah.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect for human rights. That, of course, would hold true if she genuinely cared about such values herself.

In response to the June 19 signing of the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran—intended to bring an end to a destructive war—von der Leyen declared that the European Union does not intend to lift its sanctions on Tehran.

Speaking on June 15, ahead of the G7 summit, she firmly conditioned any diplomatic thawing on domestic changes within the Islamic Republic.

"The principle of sanctions is that we need real change on the ground before we can think about lifting them," she stated, adding: "As long as there is no behavioral change, you cannot lift the sanctions because of human rights violations."

The saying “that’s history” is usually meant to be dismissive, but in politics the past casts a long shadow over the future. Now, two years after President Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump, the patterns that dominate the Democratic Party are damaging its prospects for the elections to come.

When Biden left CNN’s debate studio after an often-incoherent performance on the night of June 27, 2024, his re-election goose was cooked. With voting for president set to begin within three months, time was of the essence to replace Biden as the party’s presidential candidate. But excessive loyalty and outright denial kicked in immediately among top Democrats.