‘The Country Is Not Trump’s to Liquidate’: New Report Details Depths of Presidential Corruption and Grift

from Common Dreams

The American Economic Liberties Project and Groundwork Collaborative on Wednesday released a joint report detailing how President Donald Trump’s unprecedented corruption is padding his own pockets at the expense of US taxpayers.

The report—titled “The Price of Corruption: How Trump’s Pay-to-Play Administration is Driving Up Costs for Working Families”—explains how Trump isn’t just using the presidency to enrich himself, but leaving ordinary Americans to foot the bill for his corrupt dealings.

The report notes that the TrumpRx website, which purports to offer Americans deep discounts on drugs, is actually a scheme for funneling even more money to large pharmaceutical companies.

“When Trump rolled out TrumpRX earlier this year, the administration claimed it was a way for Americans to access more affordable prescription drugs,” the report states. “Instead, the platform fails to disclose information about less expensive generic alternatives and, in some instances, charges consumers more for products that are available for less elsewhere.”

Rather than providing real relief, the report charges, TrumpRx “serves as free advertisement for Big Pharma and may be lining the pockets of the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who is on the board of prescription drug platform BlinkRX, which stands to benefit from the administration’s promotion of direct-to-patient medicine sales.”

The report also highlights the way that Trump has used his tariffs, which raise the cost of imported goods for US consumers, as a personal self-enrichment tool, such as when he slashed tariffs on Switzerland “just a few days after Swiss business leaders presented him with a personalized gold bar worth more than $130,000 and a Rolex desk clock.”...

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‘Poles, Russians, and Jews must be exterminated’: The bloody history of Zelensky’s heroes

from RT

Burned villages. Families slaughtered in their homes. Women, children, and the elderly hacked to death with axes and pitchforks. Thousands of Jews beaten, tortured, and murdered during pogroms that accompanied the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. These are some of the atrocities associated with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its military wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – movements whose legacy remains one of the most divisive issues in Eastern Europe more than eighty years after World War II.

For decades, supporters of the OUN-UPA have portrayed its members as freedom fighters who resisted both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in pursuit of Ukrainian independence. Opponents, however, point to a different record: collaboration with the Third Reich, participation in anti-Jewish violence, and the mass killing of Polish civilians during the Volhynia massacres of 1943-1944, which Poland today officially recognizes as genocide. 

Far from being settled history, this debate has recently returned to the center of international politics. In 2026, a new diplomatic dispute erupted after Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky honored the UPA tradition at the state level, prompting outrage in Poland and reigniting long-standing accusations that modern Ukraine is rehabilitating organizations linked to fascism, ethnic cleansing, and wartime crimes. At the very moment when Polish and Ukrainian officials are working together to exhume the victims of Volhynia, disagreements over the legacy of Bandera, Shukhevich, and the OUN-UPA continue to poison relations between the two countries.

Below, we’ll talk about the origins of modern Ukrainian nationalism, the motives behind the mass killings of Poles and Jews by underground nationalist forces, and the reasons why OUN-UIA leaders collaborated with Nazi Germany...

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House approves measure to limit Trump's Iran war powers

from PressTV

The US House of Representatives has approved a resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump's war powers in relation to Iran, marking a significant challenge to the administration's handling of aggression targeting the Islamic Republic.

The measure passed on Wednesday by a vote of 215-208, with Republican Representatives Thomas Massie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett, and Warren Davidson joining Democrats in support of the resolution.

The vote followed a sustained effort by Democrats in both chambers of Congress to restrict Trump's authority over military action involving Iran, an initiative that has attracted increasing Republican backing in recent weeks...

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What the Hell is Wrong with the West?

 What the Hell is Wrong with the West?

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Pentagon appoints convicted Jan. 6 rioter to counterterrorism role

 (I told you there were Black Bloc agitators in the crowd on Jan. 6)

from al Mayadeen English

The Pentagon has appointed a man convicted for his role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot to a sensitive national security position within its counterterrorism and special operations structure, prompting internal concern over vetting and oversight.

Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to entering and remaining in a restricted building during the Capitol attack, has been assigned to a role in the Department of War’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict office.

The unit oversees highly classified military operations, including counterterrorism planning, embassy security, personnel recovery, and hostage rescue support...

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Despite his conviction, the sentencing judge noted that his prior record was “quite commendable” and offered to support his reapplication to The Citadel military academy in South Carolina, where he had been a student at the time of the riot. He was later readmitted and graduated in 2024...

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Trump confirms heated exchange with Netanyahu over Lebanon

from al Mayadeen English

US President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he sharply rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call earlier this week, criticizing the continued escalation against Lebanon while acknowledging that the two leaders continue to coordinate closely.

Speaking in an interview with Miranda Devine on the Pod Force One podcast, Trump confirmed the circulated reports that he described Netanyahu as “f***ing crazy” during a Monday conversation.

“I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon,” Trump said, referring to ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon, undeterred by the ceasefire. 

Despite the unusually blunt exchange, Trump noted that it did not affect the relationship between Washington and Tel Aviv. “We’ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him,” Trump said.

The remarks offer a public glimpse into disagreements between the US administration and "Israel", seen before during the Biden administration, wherein the former president called Netanyahu a "bad f*****g guy". 

Wave Goodbye to the Last Normal Year for American Schools

from Slate

As schools send children home for the summer, we need to recognize a frightening fact: This could be the last year of public schooling the way we’ve known it. Donald Trump’s new school funding scheme, pushed through as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will kick in during the middle of the next school year, in January 2027. It’s going to create a financial tsunami for public schools. The real tragedy is that there’s no mystery to it: We already know what will happen, because the scheme is not really new at all. It brings us back to the bad old days, to the failed and inadequate divided school budgets from before the Civil War. Trump’s plan brings back the devasting problem that our modern public school systems were designed to fix.

The new program has been called a national voucher system, but in fact it is more like a private school subsidy. Here’s how it will work: Taxpayers will be able to deduct up to $1,700 each from their federal taxes, whether or not they have children in schools. They can send that money—a dollar-for-dollar reduction in their federal taxes—to “scholarship-granting organizations.” Those SGOs, in turn, will distribute money to families to use for educational services such as tuition discounts at private schools. Not every family will benefit—SGOs can give the money only to families who earn under 300 percent of their area’s median family income. Also important is that states will have to opt in, and every state will have some say in deciding which SGOs can participate. So far, we have 29 states officially signed up, and a complicated political back-and-forth going on in the rest.

It’s very different from the traditional voucher programs that started in the 1990s. Unlike vouchers, the money goes to the SGOs, not directly to families. Most crucially, the money will not be coming directly out of state education budgets. It will come from federal coffers, and that fact has tempted some Democratic governors, such as New York’s Kathy Hochul, to flirt with the idea of opting in.

At the school-district level, however, the potential budget damage could be severe. Every student who leaves their local public school to take a subsidized private education will take their state funding away with them. School budgets are cumbersome to change, with many fixed costs, such as buildings and personnel. Even if the number of students at public schools drops suddenly due to Trump’s private school subsidy—along with the funding that accompanies them—it will take time for schools’ financial liabilities to go down accordingly. Principals and teachers get the same salary whether their school has 500 students or 300; buses cost the same whether they transport 100 students or 50; furnaces cost the same whether they warm 1,000 students or 300...

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Trump Admits ‘We Shouldn’t Have Been in Iran’

from Common Dreams

President Donald Trump said Saturday during an interview with his daughter-in-law that the US should not have waged war on Iran, while making contradictory claims about destroying Iran’s military and leaving it alone.

“You look at what happened with Iraq. We did so bad. It was such a foolish thing what we did. We shouldn’t have been there in the first place, by the way,” Trump told Lara Trump, who hosts Fox News’ “My View.” 

“We shouldn’t have been in Iran, but Iran has the capability,” he said, referring to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. 

Former US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last year that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and [the late] Supreme Leader Khamanei had not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.” US intelligence agencies have repeatedly come to the same conclusion since the George W. Bush administration.

Trump claimed that without US bombing, Iran “would have a nuclear weapon right now and will be a whole different story.”

“If we didn’t hit them with B-2 bombers, nine months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon right now,” he said.

“Their military, we’ve sort of left it alone because we think that their military is somewhat moderate,” Trump said right after saying that “their navy is gone, 100%,” and “their air force is gone, 100%.”

The president also claimed that he will negotiate a “great” end to the war with Iran, or “we’ll just go back and finish it off militarily.”

“We’re close to a very good deal,” he said...

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