More than 500 children have been killed by US-backed Israeli strikes on Gaza since March 18 | Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that US-backed Israeli attacks killed at least 58 Palestinians and wounded 213 over the previous 24-hour period as Israeli strikes continued to pound targets across the besieged territory. ● The Health Ministry’s numbers account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues. “There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram. ● Israeli attacks included a strike on a home in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, which killed at least 11 Palestinians, including five children. Another strike on a separate home in Deir al-Balah killed four people. Another Israeli attack in the northern city of Beit Lahia flattened a home and killed a family of seven. ● The Health Ministry said that since Israel restarted its genocidal war on March 18, at least 1,149 Palestinians have been killed, and 3,647 have been wounded.

✅ The Case for War: The Iron Mountain Report (Stephen Lendman)

Interview starts at about 2:00 timestamp. US federal non-regulation of biological products, 1798 to 1972 (series)

■ Aug. 5, 2024 - Part 1 - Federal communicable disease control, quarantine and biological product law, 1798 to 1972: orientation through founding of Marine Hospital Service. (Lydia Hazel and Katherine Watt)

■ Aug. 12, 2024 - Part 2 - US federal quarantine and biological product law: Marine-Hospital Service (1798); National Quarantine Act (1878); Laboratory of Hygiene (1887) (Lydia Hazel and Katherine Watt)

■ Sept. 10, 2024 - Part 3 - 1901-1910: Federal government licensing of virus and toxin propagation establishments; criminalization of traffic in adulterated or misbranded drugs. (Lydia Hazel and Katherine Watt)

■ Oct. 9, 2024 - Part 4 - 1911-1943: Continued non-existence of legal provisions directing federal agencies to establish and enforce biological product definitions and standards. (Lydia Hazel and Katherine Watt)

■ Feb. 28, 2025 - Part 5 - 1944-1972: Law and public policy imbued with scientific misconduct to better induce irrational fear of disease and irrational trust in vaccination. (Lydia Hazel and Katherine Watt)

China’s retaliation against President Donald Trump’s tariffs includes more export controls on rare earth minerals, which are vital to electronics and battery manufacturing. | The Chinese government said over the weekend that it will maintain its supply of rare earths to the rest of the world stable while limiting U.S. access to the minerals. China is the world’s dominant producer of rare earth minerals, accounting for about 70 percent of the world’s supply at the moment. More precisely, China supplies roughly 60 percent of the raw minerals, but controls almost 90 percent of processing and refining capacity. China controlled 90 percent of the market a decade ago, but alternative suppliers have ramped up production. The Chinese retaliated for this infringement upon their near-monopoly by setting record-high production quotas in a bid to bring prices down and bankrupt their competitors.

■ US delivers Panama Canal ultimatum to China (RT)
■ China’s Rare Metal Ban Could Bring US Military-Industrial Complex to a Grinding Halt: Here’s Why (Sputnik)
■ China announces new extreme retaliation tariffs on US goods after Trump’s 104% taxes take effect (Unilad)

✅ Neither US nor China ready for once-in-a-lifetime trade war (William Pesek)
✅ Trade barriers cannot stop economic globalization: Global Times editorial (Global Times)
✅ Full text: China's Position on Some Issues Concerning China-US Economic, Trade Relations (Global Times Editorial)
✅ The EU's worst nightmare has come true: Washington and Beijing have made a fateful decision (Nadezhda Sarapina)