Stephen Karganovic
Strategic Culture Foundation

Courts almost everywhere are disinclined to entertain amply documented and cogently argued submissions. That is clear proof, if any is needed, that the judicial establishment is as corrupt and beholden to private moneyed interests as is the ruling political class that it serves.

Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is rotting in a German dungeon, in the European garden where human rights and freedom to speak truth to power without fear of punishment are said to be paramount values.

Technically, the subject of these lines, German-American lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, if we were to go by the rulings of German courts, is a convicted “criminal” who is serving a three-year and nine month prison term, not a hero. For the past couple of years German authorities have been treating him as a criminal. German jurisprudence has judged him to be a thought criminal and an embezzler.

Dr. Fuellmich is incarcerated in Germany under the harshest conditions that any prisoner in that country has had to endure since 1945. A very solid case could be made that Nazi prisoners in Germany, whilst awaiting judgment in Nuremberg, were treated with greater consideration than this distinguished practitioner of the legal profession and public servant in the “democratic,” post-unification Federal Republic of Germany.

We have already written extensively about how Dr. Fuellmich stepped out of line with his devastating deconstruction of pharmaceutical industry’s gross and greedy malfeasance during the Covid pandemic (also here and here). That exposé, not the fabricated charge of embezzlement, is the actual cause of his present troubles. Dr. Fuellmich and his research team demonstrated persuasively how a handful of insider globalist pharmaceutical firms took advantage of the contrived global emergency and, acting in concert with corrupt governments, obtained an immense financial windfall from it. Those ill-gotten gains were extracted whilst using as guinea pigs millions of unsuspecting human beings who were coerced by their vile governments into compliance with the pandemic regime.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Tulsi’s US-Funded Ukrainian Biolabs Disclosure Is Incredibly Important To The National Debate

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s disclosure that the US funded some Ukrainian biolabs exactly as Russia claimed sent social media into a frenzy. While some MAGAs led by Laura Loomer claimed that this supposedly proves that she and other people who can be broadly described as “MAGA dissidents” are part of a “Russian influence operation” (RIO), which was discussed here, others are proud of what she did since they remember being told by the government that this wasn’t true.

This video here shows former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki playing fast and loose with the truth. The viever can also read her eventual successor Karine Jean-Pierre’s tweets here, where she did the same. Both denied that Ukraine’s US-funded biolabs were connected to biological warfare programs, but Tulsi just proved otherwise. The Biden Administration, therefore, lied to Americans, and many were consequently defamed as “Russian propagandists” for believing what Russia accurately claimed.

Anyone can still have whatever opinion they’d like about whether or not Russia’s special operation is justified in light of Tulsi’s disclosure that it was telling the truth about US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, but the domestic importance of Tulsi’s disclosure is that those who were defamed are now vindicated. Moreover, the resultant intra-MAGA divide over this issue shows that a significant share of the movement led by Laura is now tacitly defending the Biden Administration on this issue, which is ironic.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

This might be the US’ final warning before it takes drastic action to punish those who continue to reject Trump’s demands.

Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby gave an important speech at mid-April’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group in which he urged the Europeans to step up their transition to something that he described earlier this year as “NATO 3.0”. As was explained here, “The idea is that NATO should return to focusing on defending itself instead of overextending itself in the Indo-Pacific, West Asia, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere”, and the preceding hyperlinked analysis explains how it aligns with Trump 2.0’s policies.

Circling back to Colby’s speech, he demanded that “Europe must accelerate its assumption of primary responsibility for the conventional defense of the continent”, including arming Ukraine through the “Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List” (PURL) program in which the US plays the most significant role. To that end, “The need to quickly rebuild European munitions stocks is paramount, as is the need to remove protectionist trade barriers that stifle the continent’s industrial potential.”

He added that “Developing a robust, capable, and integrated European defense industrial base cannot simply be an aspiration, but an absolute pre-requisite for credible deterrence and defense.” Knowing how obsessed they are with Ukraine, Colby then threw in that “This will be critical to achieving an end to the war in Ukraine, on terms that support an enduring peace.” He then called for more “deeds and a fundamental change in attitude” from them to “accelerate this transition to a ‘NATO 3.0’”.

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter

They Always Tell You Why The Empire Uses Violence, But Never Why Its Enemies Do.

One common feature of western empire propaganda is that we are always given reasons for the empire’s violence, while the violence of those who resist the empire tends to be framed as happening for no reason at all.

We’ve all been fed reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, and we all know what those reasons are. Even less-informed members of the western public will have heard something about the Iranians being a nuclear threat, having a tyrannical government, and maybe something about sponsoring terrorist groups.

But the so-called “peaceful protesters” who were killed in an uprising fomented and facilitated by the United States? They were killed for no reason, simply because the Iranian government is evil and hates dissent. All the Iranian police officers who died in the uprising perished for no reason, perhaps of natural causes. It is only by pure coincidence that this happened at the exact same time the US empire was making the decision to try to topple the Iranian government.

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter

It used to be hard to help westerners see the depravity of the US empire. Now it’s just right in everyone’s face with raw genocide footage and insanely evil warmongering of direct economic consequence.

It took a lot of work to help the average westerner understand that NATO aggressions actively provoked the war in Ukraine, or that western interventionism played a major role in the violence and chaos in Syria, or that US economic warfare was largely responsible for the suffering of Cubans and Venezuelans. The murderous savagery of the empire was hidden behind layers of obfuscation, allowing the propagandists to frame the western power structure as a passive witness to the abuses of foreign regimes.

Now the propagandists have very little to work with, so those obfuscations can no longer take place. There’s no way you can spin a school full of children blown up by an American double-tap airstrike as anything other than what it is. There’s only so much narrative manipulation you can exert on raw video footage of a western-backed genocide playing out in full view of the entire world day after day for years. There’s no way to propagandize westerners into believing they want to pay a lot more more money for their fuel and groceries.

I saw former EU parliament member Luis Garicano complaining on Twitter that Trump’s actions are making it look as though leftists have been correct about the US empire this whole time, saying “Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left’s cartoon version of America ( it’s all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.”

Mike Adams
Natural News

The Sudden Vindication of Conspiracy Theorists | For years, those labeled 'conspiracy theorists' for speaking of a ruling class operating above governments were mocked, censored, and financially punished. The Department of Justice's long-delayed, partial release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's network has delivered a staggering vindication. The files confirm the existence of a powerful, supra-governmental cabal whose perverse tastes and criminal enterprises are but one facet of a broader agenda for global control.

Independent journalists like myself and Maria Zeee, who have long reported on these interconnected networks of power, faced deplatforming and the closure of their financial accounts for telling this truth [1] [2]. The Epstein files are not merely a sordid list of crimes; they are a key to deciphering the globalist script. This script, which independent media has painstakingly pieced together, outlines a coordinated agenda spanning engineered pandemics, coercive vaccination campaigns, and radical social engineering, all converging toward the dystopian goals of Agenda 2030.

The evidence laid bare illustrates that the individuals implicated are not random celebrities but key nodes in a system that funds and promotes destructive ideologies like transgenderism and transhumanism, using them as tools to dismantle natural human identity and societal cohesion in preparation for a fully digitized, controlled populace.

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter

I don’t know what to say today. We are ruled by abusive monsters.

There’s so much cruelty. So much abuse.

You’d think all this evidence that we are ruled by deranged psychopaths would unite us against them, but it doesn’t. The population is more angrily, bitterly divided against itself than ever.

Thomas Fazi
The Telegraph

Trump’s raid on Venezuela will drive even more countries away from the Western system

It has finally happened. After months of military build-up in the Caribbean, the illegal killing of more than a hundred people on Venezuelan fishing boats – many of them civilians – and the equally illegal seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers, the Trump administration has dramatically escalated its aggression against Venezuela.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, US forces launched a large-scale military attack on several sites, including the capital Caracas, that resulted in the capture – or more accurately, the kidnapping – of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.

The groundwork for this operation has been laid for months. Chief among the justifications was the claim that Venezuela is a “narco-terrorist” state at the centre of the fentanyl trade responsible for the US overdose crisis, an accusation that has been thoroughly debunked.

Other allegations were quickly added to the mix: that the country hosts “Iran-backed terrorists” (another unsubstantiated claim) and, inevitably, the assertion that regime change is about bringing “democracy” and “freedom” to the Venezuelan people.

But ultimately, once all the layers of propaganda are stripped away, this attack boils down to just one thing: a completely unprovoked and blatantly illegal act of aggression against a country that posed no real threat to the United States.

The real objectives are transparent. First, to gain control over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves – the largest in the world. Second, to topple a key ally of the non-Western geopolitical bloc aligned with China and Russia. In short, this is yet another regime-change war, from a president that campaigned precisely on putting an end to the US’s “forever wars”.

Stephen Karganovic
Strategic Culture Foundation

The vicious treatment allotted to the distinguished German lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is comparable to the persecution of figures like Giordano Bruno.

Alongside the powers that be everywhere, Google’s still anonymous AI is also a pious believer in the virtues of free expression. It proclaims boldly and for all the right reasons that free speech is vital to democracy, in which it also claims to believe. It reminds us also, which is good to know, that freedom of expression promotes an informed citizenry and self-governance and ensures government accountability. Furthermore, that open dialogue and debate facilitate the “marketplace of ideas,” which is a vital condition for social progress and provides society with a much-needed “safety valve.” And finally, that the unhindered right to express one’s thoughts, beliefs, and values without fear is a fundamental aspect of human dignity and self-fulfilment. Amen, amen, amen.

In theory, all would heartily salute those noble sentiments. And that includes even some of their most ruthless violators, such as the German government.

For over a year after kidnapping him abroad, the German government kept prominent German lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich in prison on contrived charges and under extraordinarily harsh and inhuman conditions, which were seemingly designed just to torment him. In Germany, for Dr. Fuellmich at least, the right to express one’s thoughts with dignity (never mind self-fulfilment) in the manner so movingly preached by Google’s AI avatar went out the window many moons ago.

The Dissident
The Dissident (Substack)

Background | For years, the UK government has attempted to crack down on the activist group “Palestine Action”, due to their disruption of the Israeli arms manufacturing plant Elbit Systems, which manufactures weapons used to slaughter civilians in Gaza.

The UK government has consistently coordinated with officials from Elbit Systems to assure them that it will crack down on pro-Palestine protests.

As the Guardian has reported , because many court cases have led to “Palestine Action” activists being “acquitted for in the past with human rights defenses” UK government officials met with representatives of Elbit Systems to “reassure” them that they would crack down harder on the protests.

As the independent outlet Declassified UK reported, in 2022, “then home secretary Priti Patel met privately with Martin Fausset, the CEO of Elbit Systems UK, to ‘discuss protests and security’, Home Office documents revealed that the purpose of the meeting was to ‘reassure… Fausset that the criminal protest acts against Elbit Systems UK are taken seriously by the Government'”.