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For weeks, Congress has been wrapped up in passing President Trump’s big, brutal budget — the one that pays for tax cuts for the wealthy and a trillion-dollar Pentagon budget by taking food stamps and Medicaid away from people struggling to get by.

The GOP-controlled House of Representatives just barely passed this bill — it squeaked through by a single vote. Now the Senate is considering it.

Alongside trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy, the bill also gives big handouts to the Pentagon and the president’s plans to separate immigrant families. It would result in the country’s first-ever trillion-dollar Pentagon budget — and triple annual spending on the mass detention of immigrants.

General Wesley Clark, a former NATO commander, claimed that after the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration had a plan to attack seven majority-Muslim countries over five years, starting with Iraq and followed by Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan. Iran was the only country not yet attacked, until this week. But it has been in the cross hairs of the American Empire for a long time. Clark said this was shown to him about 10 days after 9/11.

The American Empire has been consistent over the years in demonizing Iran, using the same playbook that was used to demonize Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi . There is a long list of propaganda tools that are effective. One obvious one is that every event in the Middle East is preceded by “Iranian backed”. Iranian backed Hezbollah, Iranian backed Yemeni, Iranian backed Hamas, Iranian backed Ice Cream.

Rally at Ohio Statehouse

Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
West Lawn of the Ohio Statehouse

Across Ohio, parents are working hard and still feeling the squeeze. Families are dealing with soaring costs for childcare, groceries, and housing – and an unfair tax code, making it increasingly difficult for them to make ends meet. Governor DeWine has proposed solutions to provide tax relief and make childcare more affordable for working families through a new Ohio Child Tax Credit and investments in childcare. We are coming together to make sure children and families have the care and resources they need to thrive. We need to show lawmakers that Ohioans are paying attention—and we expect them to act.

Israel’s government, which has undertaken, with prevaricative impunity the illegal occupation and theft of Palestinian water sources, farmland, homes, property, and energy resources through ethnic cleansing and the execrable crimes of mass starvation and genocide in Gaza, has further escalated a world crisis by the preemptive bombing attack on Iran, through a self-proclaimed “Operation Rising Lion.”

This deadly deceit is of monumental proportions that one must struggle with the horrific reality it presents.

Attempting to label such crimes as a defensive strikes does violence to reason. The historical record will show that Israel’s oft-repeated insistence on the Iranian nuclear weapon threat was a contrivance to justify an arms buildup funded almost entirely by the American taxpayer.

1. Pacifica Finally Settles Its Long, Strange Legal Trip —
And Big Changes Are ComingDear Friends of Pacifica,

We come to you now not merely with news, but with the unfolding of a new chapter in a long and turbulent story—a story of ideals, of struggle, and, at times, of painful self-examination.

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US Solar Cell Manufacturing Grows Despite Cloudy Days Ahead

The US doubled its solar cell manufacturing capacity and added 8.6 gigawatts in the first quarter of 2025, marking the third largest quarter for new solar manufacturing capacity on record.

According to a report recently issued by Wood McKinsey for the Solar Energy Industries Association(SEIA), new solar generating capacity totaled 10.8 gigawatts. That's 7 percent lower than installations for the first quarter in 2024, 43 percent lower than installations for the fourth quarter of last year.  It's still the fourth largest quarter of deployment on record according to the same report. 

The top five states for solar growth this quarter include Texas, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin. 

Despite growing demand for energy, the solar industry faces a rocky road over the next few years, particularly if the Senate concurs with the renewable energy tax credit cuts that have already been passed by the House.  

AG Pam Bondi is suing Jerusalem Coffee House (JCH) for adding a new drink to its menu named "Sweet Sinwar."
 
I don't remember a day has gone by since AG Pam Bondi took office that she isn't in front of a camera either threatening or warning. I cannot recall any prior AG who spent even close to the amount of time on air shaking their fist.
 
Her latest publicity stunt was to sue JCH in Oakland whose owner is of Palestinian descent. She accused the owner of adding new drinks to the menu that celebrated former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed last October in a gun battle with the IDF in Khan Younis.
 
The new drink 'Sweet Sinwar' is to honor the leader of Hamas. Bondi said on Fox News, "You can't do that. And so, we've sued them and we're going to stop this from happening. And anywhere in the country, if you do this, we're coming after you." Really? My advice to AG Bondi, if the name offends you or anyone else, don't go to Jerusalem Coffee House. We live in America and not North Korea!

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