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Monday, June 08, 2026

Yemen's Houthis declared a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea and claimed a missile strike on Israel, with the Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz blockades now simultaneously threatening roughly a third of the world's seaborne oil and gas. read more


Sunday, June 07, 2026

Steve Bannon delivered a damning prediction for Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. read more


Saturday, June 06, 2026

Iran and Russia have signed a sweeping $25 billion nuclear cooperation agreement to expand Tehran's civilian nuclear infrastructure, deepening strategic ties between the two countries even as negotiations with the United States continue over efforts to curb the Islamist regime's nuclear activities. read more


President Donald Trump has outlined his mandate for incoming acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte: He wants to gut the office. read more


Jun 6, 2026 - Stranger Things

"I've been traveling a little bit over the past few days, and as many of us have seen, I noticed the giant American flags to the side of the highways or in front of car dealerships. How everything seems to have a patriotic fervor that is over the top. It's all about celebrating America's 250th anniversary. and this hyper patriotism almost feels mandatory.

Upon seeing all of these things, I now realize that I am not nearly as patriotic as I used to be.

Now, I don't mean that I still don't appreciate the freedoms that we enjoy in America or the blessings that God has given us, but I now understand how America has become intertwined with Donald J. Trump. He has successfully convinced large numbers of people that America is Trump and Trump is America.

Right before our very eyes, Donald J. Trump and America are evolving into one entity.


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Iran SEIZES MAJOR Shipping Route Near Israel; Tehran ATTACKED By Missiles | EnforcerNews

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Live coverage

DJT says in post not to worry, 'cause there's a Ceasefire...

Israel says strikes on Tehran will cease, but strikes on Lebanon will increase... so, no more Ceasefire.

Israel is promising to respond....

The Enforcer Live

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kinda funny, these guys were kinda gung ho US at first... but Trump's Clownship has conquered that

"On Lesser Evil Voting

Noam Chomsky's view of electoral politics is, I believe, a sensible one. In fact, it's not his; as he says, it's the "traditional left view," just one that we've lost clarity on.

People mistakenly assume that by saying "vote against Trump," Chomsky is putting too much stock in the power of voting and is insufficiently cynical about the Democratic Party.

In fact, it's completely the opposite: he puts very little stock in voting and is perhaps even more cynical about the Democrats than his critics, which is why he doesn't think it's surprising or interesting that Biden is offering the left almost nothing and the party is treating voters with contempt.

The "traditional left view" he talks about is, roughly: we need to participate in elections, when they happen, and vote for the least harmful candidate. That's common sense.

But we should not see elections as the domain where we express our deepest political values, or give them an outsized role in our understanding of what politics is. Instead, we need to be working the rest of the time for the betterment of our world in different ways.

Sometimes that involves running candidates in elections, and trying to improve the slate on offer - hence the Sanders campaign, AOC, the dozens of DSA elected officials around the country.

But that's only one part of what we do. We are also building institutions; unions, media organizations, pressure groups and political organizations. We are working slowly on building power, which cannot be done in general elections.

That's news to nobody, yet everyone's attention is still fixated on national presidential politics to an unhealthy degree, to the neglect especially of state, local, and international politics."

www.currentaffairs.org

that's summation at the end of a very long article

Here's the original Halle-Chomsky position on LEV:

chomsky.info

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