Black Panthers go into Rural White America to organize with them #ClassWarfae

Confirmation! Trump wants US govt to have 1/2 stake in OpenAI/Altman. So of course it has to SQUASH the competition. As the last poster said, good for China's allegedly open source AI which won't have same influence issues. Til Trump makes it illegal.

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This is why the duopoly needs fake "progressive" like Sander. They are more dangerous than outright rightwings thugs.

RT @richimedhurst: Playing defense against the West is a losing game. Letting the adversary dictate the time & place of battle keeps the wa…

Anyone traveling to the white supremacist U.S. for the World Cup that does not represent as white can easily face this kind of treatment now that supreme court essentially allowed racial profiling again in the U.S.

Between June 3 and June 5, 2026, elite units of the United States Army Special Operations Command descended upon working-class communities across the Los Angeles metropolitan area in a series of exercises known as Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The operations included low-flying Black Hawk helicopters, simulated weapons fire, flashbang grenades and pyrotechnic explosives detonated without meaningful public notice, throwing thousands of terrified residents into panic. The first strikes came on the night of June 3, targeting the vacant St. Luke Medical Center in Northeast Pasadena. Army Rangers, MH-60 Black Hawks, and MH-6 Little Birds conducted rooftop insertions and sustained explosions from 8:30 p.m. until past 2:00 a.m. The city, still recovering from the devastating Eaton Fire of 2025, had been given a public notification at just 5:30 p.m., barely three hours before the explosions began. On the night of June 4–5, blacked-out helicopters struck East Long Beach, targeting the vacant Golden Sails Hotel. Heavily armed troops rappelled onto the roof as the surrounding area erupted in simulated combat. A brief social media post appeared at 6:30 p.m., less than six hours before the operation. The facility sits less than a mile from the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center. In the early morning of June 5, units of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, called the “Night Stalkers,” descended on Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry. Simultaneously, forces conducted nighttime exercises in Diamond Bar, adjacent to CalPoly Pomona, with city officials learning of the operation only after being flooded with emergency calls. A long history of escalation precedes these developments. In April 2012, Black Hawks and Little Birds flew low-altitude tactical formations through Chicago’s downtown skyscraper canyons. That same year, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department secretly partnered with defense contractor Persistent Surveillance Systems to conduct nine days of wide-area aerial surveillance over Compton, concealed from the city council. In 2015, the “Jade Helm 15” exercise deployed special forces in civilian clothing across nine states. In February 2019, blacked-out Black Hawks flew formation runs through Los Angeles residential neighborhoods, landing troops on Wilshire Boulevard. These operations were real, not virtual. They demonstrated that the capitalist state was already developing the architecture of domestic military control, field-testing on American soil the counterinsurgency methods drawn directly from Iraq and Afghanistan. But they were preparatory. They were conducted under administrations (Democratic and Republican alike) that still operated within certain procedural constraints. What has changed is not the existence of this infrastructure but the social and political conditions under which it is being deployed. The intensification of the class struggle, reflected in strikes, mounting social opposition and growing resistance to inequality, found its political expression within the ruling class in the rise of Trump and the consolidation of oligarchic forms of rule. The infrastructure built in Compton and Chicago has now been placed in the hands of a government that in June of last year deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines against Los Angeles, occupied Washington DC, and mobilized troops to support federal agents in Minneapolis, Portland and Chicago, not to enforce the law against suspected criminals, but to flex the muscle of militarization. Internal Army documents, leaked and published by journalist Ken Klippenstein, exposed that last July’s Operation Excalibur in MacArthur Park—in which 90 National Guard soldiers and dozens of federal agents descended on a working-class immigrant neighborhood—had a stated mission not of enforcing any specific law but precisely that: to demonstrate “the capacity and freedom of maneuver of federal law enforcement.” The counterinsurgency methods developed in Baghdad and Kabul, rehearsed over the years in Compton and on Wilshire Boulevard, are now being test-run as a matter of deliberate policy by an oligarchic government whose target is the working class. Los Angeles is a city of acute and growing class conflict. In April 2025, more than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers went on strike. In early 2026, about 77,000 LAUSD employees (Los Angeles Unified School District) were poised to strike before union bureaucrats intervened to cancel the action, a betrayal that itself reflects the ruling class’s acute fear of working-class power. The communities targeted by the military exercises are the neighborhoods in which these workers live. The domestic military buildup is directly connected to the international war drive. As WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North stated at the May Day 2026 rally, the same crisis of capitalism that drives the oligarchy toward fascism and authoritarian rule at home drives it toward military violence and the redivision of the world abroad. Under Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the Trump administration has launched the “Drone Dominance Program,” a $1 billion initiative to purchase over 340,000 attack and surveillance drones, the same assets being rehearsed over Long Beach and Pasadena. The $1.5 trillion military budget requested for 2027 is, as North stated plainly, “a budget for world war.” The working class in Los Angeles confronts the same state apparatus that is bombing Iran, funding genocide in Gaza, and occupying Washington D.C. The danger is not only political but immediate and physical. In January 2025, a US Army MH-60 Black Hawk conducting a domestic training exercise over Washington D.C., collided with American Airlines Flight 5342, killing all 67 people aboard both aircraft. The NTSB determined the disaster was “entirely preventable.” The Pentagon’s response was to make minor adjustments to flight paths, allowing operations of exactly this character to proceed in Los Angeles a year later. The response of California’s Democratic establishment was perfunctory. Mayor Karen Bass made theatrical gestures of opposition. Governor Gavin Newsom positions himself as a defender of California’s communities. But Pasadena’s own officials acknowledged they had no authority over the exercises. The City of Industry and Diamond Bar received no notice at all. This is not political miscalculation on the Democrats’ part. It flows directly from what the Democratic Party is: a party of Wall Street and the military-intelligence apparatus. California’s  supposed sanctuary laws are riddled with loopholes permitting continued ICE cooperation. Democratic congressional leaders voted to fund Trump’s $839 billion military budget, which pays for these forces deployed domestically. The Democratic Party functions not as an opposition but as an enabler of the Trump administration. The working class cannot afford illusions about who will defend it or what is required. Appeals to Democratic politicians who fund and enable the military-intelligence apparatus lead nowhere. Reliance on union bureaucracies which have already demonstrated their role—canceling a planned strike of 77,000 LAUSD workers at the precise moment workers were poised to act—leads nowhere. What is required is the construction of rank-and-file committees, independent of and in opposition to the union bureaucracies, capable of mobilizing the class power of working people. The fight against domestic militarization is inseparable from the fight against imperialist war, and both require the same answer: the building of an international socialist movement of the working class. The working class must answer ruling class militarization and authoritarianism with the only force capable of stopping them: its own conscious, organized and internationally united political power. wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06…

#SudanNews The Emergency Lawyers Group and local sources say drone attacks across Sudan killed at least 30 civilians and five soldiers this week, with the deadliest strikes hitting El Obeid in North Kordofan, where the civilian death toll has risen to 23. The reports also point to drone attacks that killed five soldiers in Delling in South Kordofan and seven civilians in separate incidents in North Kordofan, while residents reported renewed drone activity over Khartoum North (Bahri) and Omdurman in Khartoum state. The Emergency Lawyers Group said drone attacks attributed to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 23 civilians and injured 19 others in a series of strikes on El Obeid on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. According to the group, an initial strike on residential neighbourhoods killed five civilians and injured 12 others. A second attack targeted mourners gathered at a cemetery during the victims’ funeral, killing four civilians and injuring seven more. Further strikes hit neighbourhoods near the Sudanese Armed Force’s (SAF) Fifth Infantry Division headquarters, killing 13 civilians. In a separate attack early on Thursday, a drone struck a truck carrying food at the southern entrance to the city, killing the driver. The Sudanese Doctors Network condemned the attacks. Network spokesperson Tasnim El Amin told Radio Dabanga that targeting civilians, service facilities and food transport vehicles constituted a serious violation of international humanitarian law. The National Umma Party also condemned the strikes, describing them as a war crime and renewing calls for an immediate end to attacks on residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Five soldiers reported killed in Delling Local sources said a drone strike on Delling in South Kordofan on Wednesday killed at least five soldiers. The sources attributed the attack to a joint operation by the RSF and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North led by Abdelaziz El Hilu (SPLM-N). Radio Dabanga could not independently verify the claim. The attack came amid continued shelling and drone strikes on Delling, which have repeatedly killed both soldiers and civilians in recent months. Several groups accused the RSF and the SPLM N of destroying a bridge on the Delling-Kadugli road. The United Nations warned that damage to the crossing could disrupt civilian movement and humanitarian aid during the rainy season. Four civilians killed in North Kordofan The Emergency Lawyers Group said an army drone strike killed four civilians and injured another person in the Adeid Raha area of Sudri locality in North Kordofan on Wednesday. The organisation said the attack came less than a day after another drone strike targeted two civilian vehicles in the same area, killing three civilians and injuring another person. The group condemned the repeated attacks and called for an independent investigation and accountability for those responsible. Drone attack reported in Bahri Residents reported a drone attack on northern Bahri on Wednesday evening, hours after a similar attack targeted Omdurman. SAF sources said air defences intercepted the drone, although Radio Dabanga could not independently verify the claim. No information was immediately available on casualties or damage. dabangasudan.org/en/all-news…

A giant topless inflatable Elon Musk popped up in Times Square, criticizing Musk's company SpaceX and it's subsidiary xAI over alleged AI-edited sexual imagery. xAI and SpaceX were not immediately available for comment.

Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders published an op-ed in the New York Times announcing an American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, under which the federal government would become a 50 percent shareholder in OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and the other major AI companies. Sanders presented the measure as a means of wresting control of this technology from the “handful of billionaires” who dominate it. What followed has laid bare the pro-capitalist content of Sander’s scheme. The day after the op-ed appeared, President Trump signed an executive order under which the government is to receive early access to the AI companies’ most powerful models for national security vetting. Sanders approved of Trump’s order, stating, “Even these guys are beginning to catch on that there are legitimate concerns that have to be dealt with.” On June 3, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with Sanders for nearly an hour in the senator’s office, at Altman’s request. According to the Associated Press, Altman said he too wants the public to hold equity in the AI companies and offered to advocate for “the general idea” alongside Sanders, objecting only to the 50 percent figure. Two days later, aboard Air Force One, Trump confirmed that his administration has spent over a year negotiating its own stake in OpenAI, an arrangement that, he said, “almost becomes a partnership with the American public.” Asked about Sanders’ proposal, Trump said the economic views of his voters and Sanders’ voters “aren’t that far apart.” An alignment is clearly taking shape, extending from the fascist president through the AI oligarchs to the Senate’s self-described “democratic socialist” and converging on a single project: the fusion of the capitalist state with the AI monopolies. In framing his proposal, Sanders invokes the very real anxieties that masses of people have over the far-reaching implications of AI. In the first five months of 2026, US employers announced nearly 400,000 job cuts, with AI now the primary reason given for eliminating jobs, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. AI, Sanders writes, has been built out of “our collective intelligence,” the books, songs, art, journalism, code and research of generations, which the tech oligarchs have seized “without permission, without acknowledgment, without compensation.” The creative work of millions “has essentially been stolen by some of the wealthiest people in the world. It’s time for us to reclaim it.” All of this is true. But the remedy Sanders proposes would do nothing to address this crisis or improve the conditions of a single worker. His proposal would impose “a one-time 50 percent tax” on the AI giants, paid in “the stock” of the companies, which he calls “far more valuable” than their profits. This, he writes, would empower the government, “through its voting shares and an equal representation on each company’s board,” to “block decisions that hurt our citizens.” No bill has yet been introduced, and Sanders concedes that “the specific spending priorities and the mechanics of implementation” will appear only “in the coming weeks.” Whatever text emerges, the tech corporations would remain in private hands, run by the same executives and investors and driven by the pursuit of profit. The state would sit as a co-owner beside the oligarchs, a junior partner in a public-private partnership, while the working class would own nothing, control nothing and decide nothing. That such a measure can be presented as a blow against the billionaires testifies to the bankruptcy of what passes for “socialism” in official American politics. Nowhere in his op-ed does Sanders, who has built a career on the label “democratic socialist,” write the words “capitalism,” “socialism” or “expropriation.” He does not even call for “nationalization.” He denounces “billionaires,” “oligarchs” and “moguls” but never names the capitalist system that breeds them. To name capitalism is to pose the necessity of its overthrow, which is the basic question Sanders exists to suppress. Fundamentally, Sanders’ scheme is meant to provide the framework for a future bailout. The AI companies have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers on the strength of valuations that may never be realized. On June 1, the day the op-ed appeared, Anthropic filed confidentially for an initial public offering; OpenAI, valued above $850 billion, is preparing its own for as early as September. Even Fortune called a government stake in companies “burning tens of billions of dollars a year” a bailout. A state holding half the shares would acquire an overriding fiscal interest in propping up these valuations, a guarantee against collapse and a certificate of “democratic” legitimacy as mass layoffs turn popular opinion against the industry. In an effort to bolster his case, Sanders approvingly cites Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund, falsely claiming it embodies a decision that the country’s oil wealth “should be used to improve life for all of its people.” The truth is the reverse. The fund is invested entirely abroad, and the population owns and controls none of it. From the start it has functioned as an instrument of austerity, capping the annual use of the fund’s money in the state budget at 4 percent of its value, later cut to 3 percent, a rule breached only when the ruling class demands it: to finance the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine and to bail out businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Abroad, the fund is a weapon of the Norwegian ruling class, holding close to 1.5 percent of all listed shares on earth and invested in dozens of Israeli companies complicit in the Gaza genocide and the arming of the Israeli military. It is overseen by Jens Stoltenberg, finance minister fresh from a decade as secretary-general of NATO, and in 2022 the same Labour government that runs it outlawed a strike by oil and gas workers on its first day, to keep Norwegian gas flowing to a Europe at war with Russia. Such is the reality behind Sanders’ fable: a fund that enforces austerity at home, underwrites imperialist war, profits from genocide and crushes the workers in whose name it claims to act. Sanders insists his fund would give “the public a direct role in determining the future of this technology.” But Trump’s executive order, which Sanders welcomed, shows what state direction of AI means in practice. It commits the government to “work closely with industry to ensure that the best and most secure technology is deployed rapidly to confront any and all threats to our country.” Anthropic released its most powerful AI model this week in two versions, the public Claude Fable 5 and the unrestricted Claude Mythos 5, the latter deployed through a program run “in collaboration with the US government,” days after the company’s IPO filing. Washington has no intention of curbing the AI monopolies; it is harnessing them for war. Sanders asks whether AI will help “eliminate poverty,” “extend life expectancies” and “solve the climate crisis.” But the institution he would entrust with half the AI industry is not “the American people.” It is the United States government—the cockpit of world imperialism—which is already using this technology as an instrument of mass murder. On the opening day of the US-Israeli assault on Iran, Anthropic’s Claude, embedded in Palantir’s Maven system, was used to generate more than 1,000 bombing targets. The same systems direct the slaughter in Gaza, drive the machinery of mass surveillance and power the censorship directed against anti-war and socialist opposition, including the World Socialist Web Site. To pretend that the American state, handed half the AI industry, would turn it toward eliminating poverty and solving the climate crisis is a deliberate obfuscation of the class character of the capitalist state, whose purpose is to defend the wealth and power of the ruling class. Sanders’ fund would not restrain the militarization of AI; it would bind these corporations to the war machine and seat the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies in their boardrooms. Sanders has not blundered into the wrong answer. He is an experienced political operative, and this scheme serves the function he has served throughout his career: to corral the anger of workers and youth back within the Democratic Party and the framework of capitalism. In 2016, Sanders campaigned on the slogan of a “political revolution,” won 13 million primary votes, and then threw his support behind Hillary Clinton, the right-wing candidate of Wall Street and war. He repeated this performance in 2020 and was among the first to endorse Joe Biden in 2024. Sanders operates as a political safety valve, releasing the pressure building within the working class before it can take independent political form. The same role is played by the publicists of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the editors of Jacobin, and social media performers such as Hasan Piker. Sanders and his co-thinkers have no real quarrel with the tech billionaires. What they fear is the growing understanding among millions of workers that the private ownership of the means of production is the source of the crisis, and that it must be ended. The question of who controls AI cannot be entrusted to the capitalist state, and it will not be settled by a tax bill whose terms are being negotiated with Sam Altman. AI is the product of the accumulated labor and knowledge of the international working class, and it must become the common property of the international working class. This requires the expropriation of the major technology corporations and their transformation into public utilities under the democratic control of the workers themselves. Not a single job should be lost to AI. Where it raises productivity, the gains belong to those who created them, in a drastically shortened workweek with no loss of pay. The introduction of new technology must be placed under workers’ control. This program can be won only through the independent political mobilization of the working class against both parties of big business, the trade union bureaucracy and the pseudo-left, on the basis of the international socialist program of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International. Sanders declares that the future “must be decided by ... the American people.” It will be decided by the international working class, in struggle against the capitalist class, the state that defends it and the fraudulent “socialists” who serve both. wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06…

#GlobalSouthSource The United States (along with Canada and Mexico) was chosen to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, by which point it was already clear that this was a bad idea. By 2018, Donald Trump A) existed and B) had already signed a "Muslim ban," passed by the U.S. Supreme Court around the same time as the World Cup bid. There were already indications that it was a bad idea, but FIFA went ahead anyway and here we are. The 2026 World Cup is an offensive disaster even before it has begun. In the days leading up to it, Washington bombed Iran's Azadi Stadium, where the national team was training. The Iranian national team has been banned from spending the night in the country and many members of the Iranian coaching staff and journalists have been banned from entering entirely. This hostility is not limited to Iran alone: many fans from qualified countries have been denied visas entirely, and many from all sides are being turned away. Not only fans, but also team members, staff and referees. This is not a World Cup, or even really a North American Cup, it is an "American" Cup, which means draconian, hostile and extortionate. I should add that, on top of all this, the United States is carrying out genocide in Palestine, imposing blockades that cause famine in Cuba, murdering schoolchildren in Iran, kidnapping the president of Venezuela, installing an Al Qaeda regime in Syria, and committing countless other atrocities. On their own soil, the Americans are detaining Native Americans (whom they now call illegal immigrants) and holding them in concentration camps. They have the largest prison population on a good day and Kansas (City) was building a "World Cup jail" for some reason. They stifle the freedom of expression of their own people and impose such restrictions on visitors. Today, the United States has committed and is committing far more violations than the Nazis committed when they hosted the 1936 Olympics, but where is the outrage? Well, here's the scandal. NOT A FAN OF FANS The World Cup is supposed to be, as the name suggests, a time when the world comes together for something other than war. But war is the only thing the United States is doing right now, and the World Cup is no exception. Now, the sporting event has become a stage of ritual humiliation, the spectacle of a dying empire lashing out against a world it can no longer control. None of this is normal. In fact, it violates norms that date back to time immemorial. When Brazil hosted the 2014 World Cup, it passed a 900-page General World Cup Law "covering everything from visas and work permits to social campaigns and penal provisions." When Russia hosted the 2018 World Cup, its parliament granted visa-free entry to FAN ID holders for the rest of the year. Qatar (2022) is a country that is normally easy to access, and offered its Hayya card to people with match tickets or simply proof of accommodation. This included public transportation. If we go back further to 1966, when the UK considered denying visas to the North Korean national team, an internal memo stated: "FIFA has apparently made it very clear to the AF (Football Association) that if any team that has qualified for the finals is refused a visa, this one will be held elsewhere." More recently, when Indonesia refused to grant visas to Israel's U-17 team in 2023, FIFA moved the U-20 World Cup entirely, despite the fact that Israel had killed members of the Palestinian team and Indonesia was doing the right thing. It was a matter of principle, but now we discover that this principle is nothing more than white supremacy. The U.S. has never eased its draconian visa rules (on stolen land) and has never ceased its Gestapo-style raids on natives. Even the Nazis toned down during their Games, but not the Nazis who won, the Americans. Once again, Trump's Washington was granted the hosting of the Games amid controversy over its "Muslim ban" and, unsurprisingly, many Moroccans have been denied visas. But it's not just about Muslims. Many British (Scottish) fans have also had their clearance withdrawn. Now that the country requires a social media check before entry, who knows? Of course, unsurprisingly, fans from Haiti, Iran, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire are categorically denied the recommended visitor visa. And until May, fans in Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Tunisia had to pay a deposit of $15,000. Many of the countries classified typically have a visa refusal rate of more than 40%. Meanwhile, 8% of tickets allocated to Iran (according to FIFA rules!) it was simply completely revoked by the United States. When Gianni Infantino, the cowardly (and bald) president of FIFA, said in 2017, before awarding the bid: "Teams that qualify for a World Cup must be able to access the country; otherwise, there will be no World Cup. That's obvious," he didn't realize what he himself had just said. These are things that FIFA should have a problem with, but of course they are part of the problem. The Federation, like any other supposedly international institution, has been exposed as one more piece of the White Empire. Trump was awarded his Peace Prize while carrying out genocide, which included the murder of many Palestinian athletes and the destruction of all facilities in Gaza. Play Nazi games, win Nazi prizes. This is the worst World Cup in history and, frankly, it should be boycotted in solidarity with all the people who have been left out. It's not just about the fans: Washington is attacking the players, the referees; everyone is a legitimate target in this unfair World Cup. DETRIMENTAL TO TEAMS, REFEREES AND EVERYONE It is not only fans who are prevented from attending the World Cup. It also happens to teams. Switzerland's star striker, Breel Embolo, was denied a visa and could not travel with the team (it is no coincidence that he is of color). His visa has just been approved after a great uproar, but this has already had a detrimental effect on the competition. The departure of the entire South African team was delayed due to "visa issues", which also puts them at a disadvantage from the start. The same happened to the Moroccan player Zakaria El Ouahdi. Iraqi striker Aymen Hussein was detained and interrogated for seven hours. These blatant examples have been "resolved," but they have already had an anti-competitive effect. As additional examples, the Senegal national team was subjected to body searches on the runway as soon as they arrived. The Uzbekistan team was thoroughly searched, person by person, as they got off the bus, even though they had already passed immigration control. This intimidation has a distinctly racist character that would have made Hitler proud, although even he was too embarrassed to do so in 1936. Oh, how the whites have fallen. The Iranian national team, of course, is the most blatant example. Not only did the U.S. bomb one of their training facilities, but it also denies them the right to even sleep after their games. As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said, "The United States does not want the Iranian team to spend the night on its territory." FIFA is aware of this; even after Trump said he couldn't guarantee the "life and safety" of Iranian players (seems important!), they continued to reject his request to move the games to Mexico. So, instead, the team must fly out of the country before and after matches, which puts them at a real physical disadvantage. Not to mention the physical danger they face from their hosts, it must be acknowledged. Meanwhile, Iranian staff, including coaches, have been denied visas, as have journalists. And the abuses do not end there. Washington has even rejected FIFA referees! Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was denied entry at the Miami airport. The Federation issued a cowardly statement in which it stated: "FIFA does not intervene in the immigration processes of the host country, including the granting of visas", which is a lie, since they often get the legislation changed beforehand, but not in the case of the United States. There is also no news that they have simply transferred this referee to matches in Mexico or Canada. The Federation doesn't even care about its own people. THE STATE OF THE GAMES This Cup is already a disaster before the first serve has even been given. There has been a shooting at a school near the England rally, because, of course, in the United States there is a shooting almost every day; it would be an anomaly if there were none. The Swiss training camp was invaded by snakes, Senegal's training ground did not have a good bounce and Japan had to change venues due to the terrible facilities. The United States is not a safe or dignified place to travel, and the world knows it. As the Wall Street Journal reports: "The World Cup begins at the end of this week. American hotels already occupy the last place. Hotel bookings in Canada and Mexico are outpacing all but one U.S. city (San Francisco)." The United States, as a colony, is nothing more than a pyramid scheme that is nearing its end; everything is a scam, including the World Cup. Tickets sell for more than $20,000 (some for more than a million), but who wants them? And even if you can buy them, can you attend? As part of the scam, FIFA has created its own resale platform, but it is not doing well. After applying the 26% "resale fee", the average price of a ticket for the match between the United States and Paraguay (for example) amounts to $800, and there are still 4,400 tickets available because who is going to buy them? On the other hand, there are only 300 tickets available for Mexico's home games. As the Financial Times reports, "fan groups estimate that the cost of following a team at this summer's World Cup will be five times higher than it was four years ago." For all their greed, this World Cup could have empty seats. In fact, it should. All of this sucks big. This World Cup is already a hotbed of corruption, racism and greed. Hardly a very coveted entry. FEATURED SECTION: FINISHED SHOWS Hypocritical countries such as Norway (who said they would not attend the World Cup in Qatar despite not having qualified) and Germany (who posed with their hand over their mouth and wore Rolex with the rainbow) made a big splash about Qatar, but now they say nothing. About a World Cup in which not even teams and referees can travel freely and in which social networks around the world are checked to see if they are keeping the proper silence about the genocide that is currently taking place. And the same journalists and officials who protested against Qatar are silent because, in retrospect, this was nothing more than racism. These false nations, these false institutions, these false journalists; they are all part of the White Empire. A whole bunch of false flags at the height of FIFA's false internationalism. This event, like so many others this century, reveals the White Empire that lurks behind the scenes, and it's obscene. A World Cup is supposed to be a showcase for the host country, and the 2026 World Cup is. This is a horrible World Cup organized in a perverse country. As Maya Angelou said, "When someone tells you who and what it is, believe them the first time." FIFA should have known, since the time of the "Muslim ban", that the United States was a totally unsuitable candidate to host a World Cup, but they went ahead anyway because FIFA's leaders are themselves totally inadequate. It is evident that FIFA is cowardly and corrupt; No country has the courage to speak out, and white journalists treat these issues as an anomaly, rather than acknowledging that, historically, the host country is worse than the Nazis. The United States is showing the world who they are with this World Cup, which is hostile to the world. And this will have consequences. Just as the China Olympics were a "showing" party to the world, this is a "party's over" message from Washington. They're really trying to get their ball and go home. The curious thing is that its citizens don't even like football and it shows. misionverdad.com/traduccione…

Kushner is now a billionaire,” proclaimed Forbes in September 2025 of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. While just over half of Kushner’s wealth — $560 million — comes from his family’s real estate empire, what’s catapulted Kushner into billionaire status is the growth of his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, formed in 2021. “[T]hese days,” said Forbes, Kushner is “laser-focused on Affinity.” Kushner is not an experienced investment manager. His key clients are Gulf state sovereign wealth funds — hugely wealthy state-owned coffers that invest revenue generated by fossil fuel sales — overseen by the same regimes with whom Kushner is now involved diplomatically as a U.S. “special envoy for peace.” That Kushner personally profits from, and is currently trying to raise billions from, the same actors he’s negotiating with, raises code red-level alarms over potential conflicts of interest. Moreover, two of Trump’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, have been tied to a slew of business deals connected to companies that are benefitting handsomely from federal government contracts. “The degree of shamelessness is unprecedented,” Jeff Hauser, founder and executive director of the Revolving Door Project, a watchdog group monitoring the U.S. executive branch, told Truthout. “The degree of unity among elected Republicans to not speak about the Trump progeny, and their corruption, is the worst conspiracy of silence in American political history.” Jared Kushner founded Affinity Partners in 2021, and he is the firm’s sole owner. Forbes estimates Affinity was worth $215 million as of September 2025, up from $170 million in October 2024. Through Affinity, Kushner recruits wealthy clients and invests their money through funds that acquire stakes in different companies. Affinity currently has $6.2 billion in assets under management. According to the Israeli financial paper Globes, Kushner earns “a commission of 1.25 percent on investors’ capital.” Forbes says that Affinity’s investors “pay about $60 million per year in fees.” The New York Times also reports that Affinity has earned an estimated 25 percent rate of return on its investments since 2021. Private equity investment firms often get a double-digit percentage cut on client returns. Affinity’s biggest clients are Gulf state sovereign wealth funds. According to The New York Times, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which invests the kingdom’s oil profits and is led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is “already the largest and earliest investor in Affinity,” having invested $2 billion with the firm after Trump’s first term ended. As part of that investment deal, Saudi Arabia was also given “the first chance to invest during any subsequent attempts by Affinity to raise funds,” said The New York Times. The sovereign wealth funds of both the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar were also early investors in Affinity Partners, with the UAE investing over $200 million in Kushner’s firm. “Most of Affinity’s investors came through connections Kushner made while serving in the White House,” wrote Forbes. Kushner is currently trying to raise $5 billion or more in new funds for Affinity. As part of this effort, The New York Times reported in March 2026 that Affinity representatives had met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and that the United Arab Emirates and Qatar “are also expected to be asked for more” as the fundraising efforts should “stretch on for the better part of this year,” “Staggering Conflicts of Interest” Kushner’s current fundraising efforts with Gulf state regimes, through which he aims to personally profit, raise serious concerns over conflicts between his business interests with regional states and his diplomatic role as a top Trump administration negotiator. “There’s an enormous conflict of interest when you have somebody who had never been a money manager like this before, and who is all of a sudden building massive funds based off a handful of foreign investors with an interest in buttering up the Trump administration,” said Hauser. Hauser said it’s “not unprecedented” for well-connected family members or friends of presidents to influence U.S. diplomacy. But, he adds, “it is very susceptible to abuse, and I think it’s being abused here,” and government reforms are needed in the wake of Kushner’s current “diplomatic exploits.” The potential conflicts of interest have been highlighted by some members of congress. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) has opened an investigation into what he labels Kushner’s “foreign entanglements and staggering conflicts of interest.” “From the standpoint of the American people, your decision to act in these two roles — one public for the government and one private for personal profit — creates a glaring and incurable conflict of interest,” Raskin wrote in a letter to Kushner. Kushner’s diplomatic efforts have included helping to design and advance the Abraham Accords, which aims to normalize relations between Israel and key Gulf States; carrying out negotiations with Iran, whose retaliatory strikes have been aimed at nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE; and working on Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” which several Gulf states, including top Affinity clients, have joined. Kushner’s Portfolio Companies Affinity Partners’ most significant deal has been its $55 billion acquisition in 2025, in partnership with Saudi Arabia and other investors, of the video game giant Electronic Arts, maker of popular franchises like Madden and Sims. The transaction, which has garnered protests from gamers and developers, would be the largest-ever private buyout of a publicly-traded company. It’s currently in its final stages of approval. Under the deal’s terms, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — which already had a 10 percent stake in Electronic Arts — will own 93.4 of EA, while Affinity Partners will own 1.1 percent. For Saudi Arabia, the deal advances two separate but intertwined aims: diversifying its economy away from overreliance on oil revenue, and partnering with a member of the Trump family as the deal seeks regulatory approval from the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, chaired by Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Affinity Partners also invests in smaller AI and financial companies, including U.K. digital bank OakNorth, AI infrastructure firm Universal AGI, and the fintech start-up company Revolut. Forbes reports that Kushner recently launched a new San Francisco-based AI start-up with the prominent Israeli-born venture capitalist Elad Gil. The firm, Brain Co., also raised funds from Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman. Raising more potential for conflicts with his diplomatic role, Kushner also has stakes in several Israeli companies, including $1.68 billion in Phoenix Financial, one of Israel’s leading insurance and financial companies. Affinity is Phoenix’s top shareholder and has seen a five-times return on its investment. Affinity is also invested in the Israeli Shlomo Group, one of Israel’s largest holding groups with big investments in the auto sector. Kushner, TikTok, and the Trump Web Jared Kushner is also embedded in a wide web of business figures advancing the Trump agenda — which could be seen in the January 2026 deal that created a U.S. spinoff of TikTok. Kushner’s Electronic Arts deal is co-led by Silver Lake, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. As Truthout previously reported, Silver Lake is also a 15 percent stakeholder in the new U.S. TikTok. The firm’s co-CEO Egon Durban sits on the seven-member board of U.S. TikTok. In 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported that acquiring Electronic Arts was Durban’s “dream deal,” but that “the pieces began to fall into place” for the acquisition only after Durban “began spending time with Jared Kushner.” Silver Lake also owns Endeavor, whose portfolio includes TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the mixed martial arts corporation that is chummy with Donald Trump. Durban and Silver Lake are close business partners with Michael Dell, the megabillionaire chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies who is also part of the U.S. TikTok ownership group with Durban. Dell has cast himself as a Trump ally by donating $6.25 billion toward the president’s so-called “Trump Accounts” program, which creates investment accounts for U.S. children. Billionaire Yuri Milner, another U.S. TikTok investor, previously invested $850,000 in a real estate company started by Kushner in 2015. Jon Winkelried, the billionaire CEO of TPG Global, a private equity firm represented on U.S. TikTok’s board, also previously served as a strategic adviser and partner for Thrive Capital, an investment firm overseen by Jared Kushner’s brother, Josh Kushner. The Trump Sons If Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, may be personally benefiting from his closeness to the president, so too might be two of the president’s own children. Donald Trump Jr. is a partner with an investment firm called 1789 Capital, which he says is dedicated to “patriotic capitalism,” and which has seen its assets under management boom from $200 million to $3.5 billion over the past year. 1789 Capital has made investments in companies that have gone on to benefit from federal contracts. For example, the Trump administration helped secure a $620 million loan for Vulcan Elements, a rare earths firm, months after 1789 Capital acquired a stake. Other 1789 Capital portfolio companies that benefit from federal contracts include rocket propulsion start-up Firehawk Aerospace, quantum computing company PsiQuantum, and AI group Cerebras Systems, as well as SpaceX and Anduril. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have also been linked to other drone makers, including Unusual Machines and Powerus, that have secured federal contracts. Trump Jr. told the Financial Times that he is “very involved in the strategic decisions regarding where to invest” the resources of 1789 Capital. The Financial Times also reported that Eric Trump accompanied his father on his recent state visit to China at the same “a company linked to him and the US president’s family” — Alt5 Sigma, a Las Vegas-based financial technology company — “explores a deal” with Chinese chipmaker Nano Labs that U.S. lawmakers says is tied to the Chinese Community Party. Eric Trump is an “observer” on the board of Alt5 Sigma, while Zach Witkoff, the son of top Trump aide Steve Witkoff, chairs Alt5’s board. The Financial Times also reports that a shell company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump is set to merge with a critical minerals group that last year secured up to $1.6 billion in U.S. government backing to mine tungsten in Kazakhstan. Now, that group is asking for $400 million more from the government. Holding Politicians to Account While Donald Trump may be struggling in the polls, his family, financially, is doing just fine. Hauser told Truthout that much of Donald Trump’s “economic interest” is tied to “increasing the wealth of his kids,” including his son-in-law Kushner. “When they are engaged in these types of overseas actions, they are carrying Trump’s interests with them inherently,” said Hauser. But, Hauser adds, the law treats adult children of presidents as wholly independent from their parents, allowing “relative impunity” for their intermixing of business transactions with diplomatic roles or close familial relations. “The law is just not written to address this type of situation,” said Hauser. But Hauser sees hope in past U.S. history, which he says has always experienced vicissitudes of political corruption and revulsion against corruption that propels reform through both legal avenues as well as social ostracization of bad actors. “Political corruption cycles tend to be cyclical,” he said. “Hopefully this is [the] nadir, and we can all be angry enough and hold our politicians to account such that they start to clean this up, and we can switch from a vicious cycle of ever-increasing corruption to a virtuous cycle of greater integrity.” truthout.org/articles/from-p…

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Seven-month-old Mohammed Qweider is fighting for his life, weighing only 4 kilograms, while suffering from Fanconi-Bickel syndrome, rickets, and severe blood acidosis, with no treatment available inside the Gaza Strip. His family is appealing to save him and secure urgent medical transfer.

یکسال از آغاز اولین دور از حملات جنایتکارانهٔ رژیم اسراییل و آمریکا به خانهٔ ابدی ما ایران می‌گذرد؛ کودکان بی‌گناه را به قتل رساندند و از هیچ جنایت و قساوتی پرهیز نکردند. به تأسی از شهدای قهرمان و مظلوم جنگ ۱۲ روزه، تا پای جان برای سربلندی و پیروزی نهایی ایران عزیز ایستاده‌ایم.

🚨 How US Media Gaslights Everyone Without You Even Knowing It 🚨 The most useful aspect of US media propaganda is how it acts like even recent history doesn’t exist. It’s a wonderful form of gaslighting. Even the slightly less pro-war, less pro-death-spiral articles vomited forth by Western media act like history started yesterday. They run with headlines like “US Strikes Iran In Response To Downing of Apache Helicopter” or “Iran, US Exchange Fire As Ceasefire Seems To Be Breaking Down.” Those types of headlines. It’s nearly every article in the US media about Iran. For examples just look here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. And that’s just the past TWO DAYS. None of the articles acknowledge that the US war machine went thousands of miles around the f'king world to f'king attack Iran in the first place despite Iran attacking no one. Despite the US and Israel having nuclear weapons and Iran having none. Despite the US and Israel committing genocide in Gaza while Iran commits none. Despite the US surrounding Iran with dozens of military bases while Iran has none outside their own country. Leaving any and all of this out (or putting some of it in the last sentence that 95% of readers don’t get to), means that even a seemingly, somewhat, possibly, kinda“unbiased” article still serves US imperial propaganda. Let’s say I was walking down the street and you were walking the other direction, and I randomly punched you in the face for no reason. And let’s assume, once you regained your senses, you punched me back, and we started rolling on the ground beating the shit out of each other. If a reporter happened to see the whole thing and then wrote an article titled, “Two Men Tussle On The Ground, Threatening Peaceful Sidewalk Atmosphere,” (besides needing something better to write about) the reporter would actually be manipulating the reader. [SIDE NOTE: I'm very suppressed here. The only way to reliably see my work and to subscribe for free at "RealLeeCamp" on subs tack. Thanks!] Without knowledge of the very recent history, the reader wouldn’t know why the men were fighting. The reader wouldn’t know who started the fight. The reader would perhaps assume they were fighting for a good reason and not because one guy was a psychopath and hit a stranger in the face. The reader could easily end up supporting neither of the two sides or even supporting the wrong side because he/she doesn’t know which one started the shit. The simple lack of even recent history makes all Western media clear pro-imperial propaganda. I’m not even referring to history from decades ago — which generally involves the US empire f'king with a country with reckless abandon. I’m only referring to the history that happened this year. I’m referring to simple basic info like the fact that the US / Israel attacked Iran without being attacked. Or the fact the US / Israel have committed countless war crimes and crimes against humanity during these attacks on Iran. Or the fact that many of the public statements by US officials brag about war crimes or genocide — things like wiping Iran off the map or hitting civilian infrastructure like water treatment facilities, bridges, power plants, etc. Or Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stating the US will not abide by the rules of war. The millions of words written about the “War with Iran” would take on a very different meaning if the titles of the articles were something like, “The US—The Proud War Criminal State That Started This Shit—Trades Strikes With Iran.” Endlessly ignoring even very recent history is a form of manipulation. It’s a form of propaganda. Most Americans, despite largely wanting the war with Iran to be over, are already well on their way to forgetting who started it and how. (And most of them never knew the true reasons why.) Ironically many US newsrooms are packed full of liberals who quite likely hate and/or dislike Donald Trump. Yet these highly educated clowns writing most US news have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that they don’t even know they’re happily manufacturing consent for US wars of aggression. Disliking Trump does not stop them from propping up the empire like good little stormtroopers. [NOTE: Support my work for free by subscribing at "RealLeeCamp" on subs tack. Thanks!]

On June 10, FIFA banned the Haitian national team's jersey, just two days before Haiti’s opening game today, June 13. This is not the first time FIFA has penalized countries for wearing 'political' jerseys.

I’m running as an independent antiwar pro-worker revolutionary socialist for the U.S. Congress. Rank-and-file union members supporting my campaign will be at the @labornotes convention in Chicago this weekend! If you are planning to attend Labor Notes, please join us at our Kshama for Congress Labor Meetup! Saturday, June 13th, at 6:30PM Chicago time. We will meet in the entry level foyer. Email us at campaign@kshamasawant.org The vast majority of the leadership in the labor movement right now is business unionist. These leaders have made peace with the capitalist system and the political parties of the capitalist class. This has meant that the billionaires and multimillionaires have become unimaginably wealthy from war profiteering and exploiting tens of millions of American and immigrant workers. We need a reckoning in the labor movement. To make that happen, we need leaders who base themselves on class struggle methods, which is the opposite of business unionism. My campaign for Congress is based on such class struggle methods and continues my decade-long unparalleled track record as the socialist on the Seattle City Council. By using my City Council office to build mass movements, I won historic victories like the nation’s highest minimum wage, the Amazon Tax on wealthy corporations, and unprecedented renters’ rights. I’m fighting 👉for Free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich 👉To End the genocide in Gaza, end all military aid to Israel, and end all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war 👉For A public-sector living-wage jobs guarantee, funded by taxing the rich 👉For The right to unionize for all workers 👉For National rent control and a massive expansion of publicly-owned affordable housing 👉To Stop the AI data centers and mass layoffs 👉To Shut down ICE and the detention centers 👉For A $25 an hour federal minimum wage, which should be higher in major cities

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Jared Kushner founded Affinity Partners in 2021, and he is the firm’s sole owner. Forbes estimates Affinity was worth $215 million as of September 2025, up from $170 million in October 2024. Through Affinity, Kushner recruits wealthy clients and invests their money through funds that acquire stakes in different companies.