If you are a Christian living in the Western United States, you have almost certainly been targeted with pro-Israel, anti-Palestine propaganda, paid for directly by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Your searches, location, and internet activity is being monitored by Israel, and your algorithms and search results across multiple platforms are being manipulated by Israeli government in what its American partner calls the “largest geofencing and targeted Christian digital campaign ever.”

Amid a massive drop in support from the Christian community, Israel is spending millions of dollars to target individuals entering churches or Christian colleges with ads, and paying pastors across the country to promote propaganda and false “anti-Palestinian” narratives every Sunday, documents filed with the United States’ Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) show.

The 86-page disclosure reveals that Israel is recruiting Hollywood celebrities and sports stars to promote the country, while also manipulating Christians’ social media feeds. And they are doing it by spying on you through your phone.

MintPress explores this explosive story, largely ignored in corporate media.

In September, Show Faith by Works LLC, a San Diego-based company led by conservative activist Chad Schnitger, filed a sworn document with the U.S. Department of Justice. The declaration revealed that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs was paying Show Faith by Works $4.1 million to carry out a massive, covert, digital surveillance operation targeting Christian communities across multiple states, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

The document noted that all students at every Christian college and every congregant at “every major church” in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado has been spied on through their phone’s location data, and targeted with propaganda extolling Israel’s “moral superiority” and “linking the Palestinian population with extremist factions.” The campaign estimates that it has reached well over eight million Americans.

Show Faith by Works itself divides its messaging into two themes: “pro-Israel” and “anti-Palestinian”. Its primary goals, in its own words, are to “combat low American Evangelical Christian approval of the Nation of Israel,” by “using biblical arguments to highlight the importance of Israel and the Jewish People to Christians.” It also wishes to “educate Christians on the historical importance of Israel and its significance in the region,” and to “counter new and evolving pro-Palestinian messaging as the global narrative shifts.” (more…)

FARA Docs: Israel is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has denounced the “unlawful and illegitimate” Israeli seizure of its property in occupied East Jerusalem.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Patriarchate said that it “expressed grave concern over the Israeli raid and land grab targeting its Church property in Silwan”.

During the operation, which took place on Monday, “the Patriarchate’s representative was forcibly removed, his equipment was confiscated, trees were uprooted, and the property was enclosed with fencing and gates”.

It said that the disputed land, which is adjacent to the Monastery of St Onuphrius, is registered under its ownership, and warned that this seizure “sets a dangerous precedent for Church rights in Jerusalem”.

This move is part of a broader policy aimed at seizing Palestinian land, including private property, public land, religious endowments and church-owned assets, the statement added.

"The incident constitutes an unlawful and illegitimate seizure of established Church property in the heart of Jerusalem," it said, calling it part of "a wider pattern of escalating assaults aimed at weakening the indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land". (more…)

Greek Orthodox Patriarchate denounces Israeli seizure of church land in Jerusalem

Of all the important and urgent speeches delivered recently by politicians and experts from many countries with the aim of preventing the strategic situation from escalating into a catastrophe that would wipe out the human race, Pope Leo XIV’s intervention—with his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (1) and the addresses he delivered during his recent trip to Spain (2)—is, in my best judgment, by far the most important. When historians later examine the question of what—hopefully—proved to be the decisive factor in bringing Western civilization, in the midst of a deep spiritual and cultural crisis, to change course, they will come upon the role played by the Pope, and the willingness of a sufficiently large number of believers and people of good will to take his words to heart and bring about a change in policy.

Without ever having to name the guilty parties, Pope Leo XIV defines with absolute clarity the structures of sin that today pose existential threats to humanity—structures whose concrete relevance everyone can recognize, and which must be urgently eliminated. At the same time, he indicates the way out of the crisis, which is within reach—namely, that people summon up the highest ideal of the Christian view of humanity, and put it into practice. Precisely because the mainstream media largely suppress these texts by the Pope, Christians and peace-loving people need to create a political climate in which no politician seeking re-election can afford to admit his or her ignorance of his writings and speeches. For that of course, as many people as possible must first not only read, but also study, this encyclical and these addresses.

At the very moment when the first multi-billionaire on the basis of an AI fiction declares himself the first trillionaire, this encyclical warns against a new Tower of Babel, in which a new form of idolatry pays homage to profit at the expense of the weak, a dehumanization that uses others as means, an age-old yet ever-renewed temptation that today comes cloaked in technology. And coinciding with the entry into force of the EU Migration Pact—which, as of June 12, will accelerate procedures for deporting refugees at the EU’s external borders and thus massively restrict the right to asylum—Pope Leo XIV counters with the Christian principles as to how the migration issue should be addressed.

When one considers the encyclical and the Popeʼs speeches in Spain together, they represent a complete reckoning with the entire political agenda of the liberal West, and do so with a clarity that should compel all politicians who have sworn an oath of office to serve the common good (above all, those whose parties bear the word “Christian” in their names) to completely reverse their policies. (more…)

Urgent Appeal from Pope Leo XIV: ‘Stop! Repent! Before It’s Too Late!’ The New Name for Peace Is Development!

A new interpretation of “Comfortably Numb”, a collaboration between Roger Waters and Palestinian artist Mona Miari. Featuring newly written verses in English and Arabic, the work reframes the song through themes of displacement, memory, loss, and the enduring pursuit of justice and human dignity.

Created with artists from Palestine and beyond, this audio-visual piece transcends borders and languages, offering a powerful reflection on resilience, truth, and the shared humanity that binds us all.

Listen here: https://music.empi.re/comfortablynumb-reimagined

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Roger Waters

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Director

David Barron

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Mona Miari

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Yasmin Almokhamad-Sarkisian

Director of Photography (Gaza Unit)

Suhail Nassar

Second Unit Cinematography (Gaza Unit)

Jaber Badwan

Moayed Abuammouna

Belal Al Hams

Ibrahim Nofal

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Oskar Peacock

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David Barron

Animator

Beau Willis

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Mark Wilhelm

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Wael Morcos, Gamila ElKordy – Morcos Key

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Daleen Saah

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Mohammed el-Kurd

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Heba Kadry

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Gideon Forbes

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Alber Baseel

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Thor Jonsson

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Ola Galal

Samara Ghali

Zahra Alzubaidi

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On Monday, June 8th, 2026, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask Off Maersk campaign & Oxfam Denmark, one of the foremost human rights organizations internationally, released a groundbreaking new report explicitly proving Maersk’s shipment of bullet, bomb, and mortar components for Israel after claiming for years to not ship ammunition. Not one month earlier, we similarly exposed Maersk for violating their official 2025 settlement embargo. For a company who claims their purpose to be “Improving life for all by integrating the world,” six separate reports and briefings in just two years explaining how Maersk does everything but is quite stark, even for today’s business standards.

The not-so-shocking truth is that thus far, Maersk’s motivation has not been human rights, but profit by any means necessary. For the logistics giant, ‘human rights’ is a practice in semantics; a statement, a public posture, but never a commitment or, as our findings reveal, a real policy change. Palestinian fathers actively sift through the rubble of their homes in search of what might possibly remain of their families as Maersk loads its next shipment of munitions components in preparation for Israel’s next massacre. Maersk knows this. Maersk has gone to great lengths to ensure that Israel is still capable of committing these massacres. As a campaign that has mobilized millions across the globe to end Maersk’s complicity in genocide, we deserve clarity. The Palestinian people deserve an answer. So, consider this a formal question to CEO Vincent Clerc and the Maersk leadership: Maersk, what is a weapon?

Maersk has been one of the most important logistics companies in facilitating the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Yet in an ever-lengthening ‘statement on military-related cargo’ posted on Maersk’s website, the logistics giant claims with confidence that it does not ship weapons. Moreover, at this year’s Annual General Meeting, CEO Vincent Clerc emphatically denied any role in shipping specific military cargo for Israel when questioned by shareholders, even refusing to answer questions on their human rights due diligence policies. So, it’s really critical that we understand what a weapon actually is, and how Maersk is decidedly not shipping it. (more…)

Maersk, munitions, and corporate accountability in the age of genocide

His logic is that Russia is the only one that benefits from Poles and Ukrainians being at odds, which wouldn’t have happened had Zelensky not glorified the Volhynia Genocide’s culprits, and the consequences of their deteriorating ties could significantly harm Poland’s national interests.

Przemysław Czarnek is the conservative opposition’s prime ministerial candidate ahead of fall 2027’s next Sejm elections. His words therefore carry immense weight and reverberate throughout the nation. That’s why it’s incredibly important to pay attention to what he just alleged about Zelensky amidst the Volhynia Genocide dispute’s latest phase sparked by Zelensky glorifying the OUN-UPA culprits at the state level. The most scandalous part is that Zelensky is serving Russia’s interests on this issue.

His logic is that Russia is the only one that benefits from Poles and Ukrainians being at odds, which wouldn’t have happened had Zelensky not glorified the Volhynia Genocide’s culprits. It was recently explained here how Putin doesn’t benefit from the latest phase of this dispute since Poland is unlikely to cut off aid to Ukraine, both its own and the West’s. That said, Czarnek is correct that the deterioration of people-to-people ties – due to coordinated Ukrainian troll attacks against Poles – surely pleases Russia.

He made two other important points too. One of them was that Zelensky is only still in power due to Poland’s diplomatic offensive during the early days of the large-scale hostilities whereby it successfully rallied the West behind Ukraine while Russian forces were still right outside the capital. That’s a valid point that was earlier elaborated on here in summer 2024. Czarnek therefore considers it to be an act of the highest ingratitude for him to then glorify the Volhynia Genocide’s culprits.

The other point that Czarnek made was that Zelensky’s renaming of an elite commando unit in honor of “the heroes of UPA”, the OUN’s armed group that directly carried out the grisly murder of over 100,000 Poles, is also an act of extreme disloyalty to the Ukrainian nation. He didn’t expand on this point, but it can be reasonably assumed that he was implying that they deserve better than to glorify and thus be associated with fascist war criminals. A lot of people the world over, including in the West, would agree. (more…)

The Polish Opposition’s PM Candidate Alleged That Zelensky Is Serving Russia’s Interests

Police in Berlin forcibly broke up a demonstration by Polish activists seeking to place a wooden cross at a memorial to their country’s victims of Nazi Germany on Tuesday, according to organizers and footage circulating online.

The organizers, the Polish Border Defense Movement, have argued that the memorial, currently marked by a large commemorative boulder near the Reichstag, does not adequately reflect the scale of Poland’s suffering during World War II and lacks both a cross and explicit national symbols.

Footage from the scene appeared to show police officers pushing and shoving participants as they attempted to approach the memorial. Several activists were seen being physically restrained, while video also showed officers struggling with demonstrators over the wooden cross. Six people were temporarily detained during the operation, according to police.

“The German police brutally attacked us. The officers began to thrash us and tried to wrest the cross from our hands. We refused to allow this desecration,” Robert Bakiewicz, the movement’s founder, wrote on X. (more…)

Berlin police break up tribute to Polish victims of Nazism

Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which directly confronts the profound challenges posed by artificial intelligence to humanity. We also examine Dr. Jones’ article, “Tragedy in Two Acts: A Review of Aquinas and the Market by Mary Hirschfeld, Ph.D.,” published in the June issue of Culture Wars. In this sharp and incisive book review, Jones delivers a powerful critique of the foundational assumptions underlying modern economics.

Dr. Jones is editor of Culture Wars magazine and author of many books including the most recently published Walking with a Bible and a Gun and his soon to be released autobiography Born Under a Bag Sign.

Israel‘s former defence minister has compared settler ideology to Nazism, and accused authorities of failing to investigate Israelis responsible for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Israeli news site Ynet on Sunday, Moshe Ya’alon said that factions within the religious Zionist movement, which is closely aligned with Israeli settlers, hold a “Jewish supremacy ideology”.

“What is Jewish supremacy? Eighty years after the Holocaust, it’s Mein Kampf in reverse. The superior race is us,” said Ya’alon, who served as defence under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu between 2013 to 2016.

Ya’alon, who also recently visited Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank amid attacks by the Israeli army and settlers, described what is happening in the territory as a “disgrace for generations”.

“The Israeli government is encouraging Jewish pogromists to dispossess Arabs of their land through abuse, including shooting at them,” Ya’alon told Ynet, adding that more than 20 Palestinians had been killed in those attacks. (more…)

Israel’s former defence minister compares settler ideology to Nazism

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal visits the Wall of Tears in Dearborn, Michigan.

This heart-rending visual display memorializes the over 18,500 children killed by the Israeli military in the besieged Gaza Strip between October 7, 2023 and July 2025.

Blumenthal reads off the names and ages of several of these children, and places their lives in the broader context of Gaza's occupation, siege and genocide at the hands of the state of Israel.

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday welcomed the memorandum of understanding reached between Iran and the United States, expressing hope that it would bring the more than three-month war to a definitive end, while calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons and addressing the economic and social damage wrought by the war.

Speaking to reporters outside Villa Barberini, the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo, where he spends his Tuesdays resting and working, Leo said: “Thank God, there is at least this memorandum that they will officially sign on Friday.”

“There will still be several points to be established,” he added, “but it is always better to do so through dialogue, through negotiation, rather than returning to war.”

The Pope expressed hope that the memorandum would be “truly a solution to the war, that the war is really over, and that we can move forward for the good of all,” calling specifically for the elimination of nuclear weapons and efforts to address the economic and social consequences generated by the war.

The remarks come after months of outspoken opposition to the US war on Iran, which Pope Leo consistently condemned from the earliest days of the aggression. (more…)

Pope Leo XIV welcomes US-Iran memorandum, hopes war ‘is really over’

Sweden’s parliament has passed one of the country’s most definitive migration laws in years, approving the so-called “snitch law” by a razor-thin margin. The legislation came through as the EU nation, which used to be one of the most welcoming for refugees, adopted a stricter policy after the unprecedented 2015 migration crisis.

The parliament approved the legislation formally titled Strengthened Return Operations on Monday, by 174 votes to 172.

It was based on a government proposal to oblige employees of six public agencies – the Tax Agency, Employment Service, Social Insurance Agency, Pensions Agency, Enforcement Authority, and Prison and Probation Service – to proactively inform police if they have reason to believe a person lacks the right to reside in Sweden.

The law, which comes into force on July 13, will provide authorities with “better tools to enforce deportation and expulsion decisions.”

Authorities will also be permitted to seize and search a suspect’s mobile phone if it may contain identity information, and to expand the use of fingerprints and photographs. (more…)

Sweden passes illegal migrant ‘snitch law’

Germany is proving that it misses its Nazi past by continuing to expand military cooperation with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Speaking to journalists on Monday, Lavrov pointed to recent remarks by German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, who said German troops would cooperate more closely with the Ukrainian military on gleaning lessons from the battlefield.

“In other words, with the new Nazis,” Lavrov said, suggesting that “Germany has longed for the Nazi Emblems and Nazi behavior currently displayed by the Ukrainian army and the so-called nationalist battalions.”

He added that Germany is now “throwing off the veil” that had been concealing its “Nazi roots and its Nazi instincts, which, as it turns out, had never gone away.”

Lavrov also took aim at European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, saying she is not called “Fuhrer” for nothing. He accused the EU leadership of presenting Kiev’s war effort as a defense of “European values” while ignoring Ukraine’s persecution of Russian speakers.

“Ukraine is fighting and dying for European values,” Lavrov said, paraphrasing von der Leyen’s past statements. “Put two and two together, and it turns out that European values include the complete deprivation of rights for Russians and Russian-speaking people,” including in education, media and culture. (more…)

Germany misses Nazism – Lavrov

It’s come to this: Israel is killing in the hopes that will enable it to kill some more. And according to polls the Israeli public and their cheerleaders in Canada largely support that plan.

In a flagrant bid to undercut a US-Iran peace accord, Israel bombed southern Beirut Sunday. Three were killed in a bombing many expected since Israel has repeatedly sought to derail a de-escalation agreement between the United States and Iran. Tel Aviv is seeking to provoke an Iranian response as Donald Trump announced that the US and Iran would sign a peace accord Sunday.

At the same time the Israeli army killed a couple in Tyre and expanded its ‘no go’ zone in southern Lebanon, reported L’Orient Today. They “ordered the evacuation of 29 villages north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, including 16 located deep within the country, more than 30 or even 40 kilometers from the border.” Many thousands more Lebanese will be displaced in what will also likely elicit a reaction from Hezbollah.

The Israeli Jewish public backs the displacement and violence. According to Friday’s Financial Times, “most Israelis back the war with Iran, oppose the ceasefire and want Israel to keep attacking Hizbollah in Lebanon.” The FT reported on a recent Israeli Democracy Institute survey that found Jewish Israelis (as opposed to non-Jewish Israelis) believe it’s not in Israel’s interests to end its war on Iran under the current framework. According to a Jerusalem Post summary, “Among Jewish respondents, fewer than one-third in any political camp said ending the war would be in Israel’s interest. The figures stood at 30% on the Left, 26.5% in the Center, and 29.5% on the Right.” (more…)

Zionist groups out of step with Canadian, US public

Five days after Britain hit networks tied to settler violence in the West Bank with sanctions, the rest of the machine walked into Edgware United Synagogue and carried on selling. On 14 June, the Great Israeli Real Estate Event went ahead behind heavy police lines. Protesters packed the streets outside, politicians slammed it, and fourteen people got arrested. Inside, Israeli firms pitched homes, land and relocation packages tied straight into the settlement economy.

I followed the trail. It started with the deleted exhibitor list Emanuel Group CEO Emanuel Vatari posted. I ran it against company filings, Who Profits records, settlement databases, Israeli tenders, Knesset votes, old promotional material and what happened that day. Initial reporting named four settlement-linked outfits. Two more, Oron Group Investments & Holdings Ltd. and BRIGA, were also in the room, but nobody reported it. The whole thing was sold as legal advice, financial guidance and help moving to Israel.

Promotional stuff mentioned Gush Etzion early on before they scrubbed it under pressure. The night before the event, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians served a formal legal notice on the synagogue, warning of severe legal and reputational risks if it went ahead. Same script that’s played out in synagogues in New York and across North America. Different city, same game.

Oron Group lays it bare. Big publicly traded Israeli company with contracts from the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office, Ministry of Defense, Airports Authority, Netivei Israel, Transport Ministry and Ministry of Construction and Housing. It runs the Meitarim Quarry on occupied land near Tene Omarim, pulling two and a half million tons of stone a year and running concrete and asphalt plants next to it. It expanded Highway 60 through the West Bank, carving under Beit Jala to link settlements to Jerusalem while bypassing Palestinian communities. It did housing expansion at Eshkolot and infrastructure for the Jerusalem Light Rail serving occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhoods.

n October 2025, Oron secured a NIS 310 million contract, about eighty-three million dollars, to expand Terminal 3 at Ben Gurion Airport. They rip stone out of occupied hills, build settler roads, and still collect big national projects at Israel’s main airport. The system is evidently feeding them.

Those West Bank contracts go through the Civil Administration and the Administration for Settlement Affairs, handed to Bezalel Smotrich after Netanyahu’s coalition deal in December 2022. Smotrich has boasted that the planning bodies under him have approved 51,370 housing units in the West Bank and poured hundreds of millions into infrastructure and land registration. Ten days before Edgware, on 4 June, he pushed a Knesset law giving tax breaks to fifty-nine West Bank settlements to stop any Palestinian state. On 14 June itself, while the developers worked on the synagogue floor, he signed a two-billion-shekel deal for six thousand apartments in Karnei Shomron plus roads, schools, transport and commercial areas. Karnei Shomron had already turned up in material linked to the London event. The state orders it, plans it and naturally protects it.

Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank keeps the cash flowing. Its London branch at 30 Old Broad Street pushes Israeli mortgages to foreign buyers. The bank runs branches inside settlements and finances the councils and builders. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund cut ties with them in 2025 after its ethics council concluded those services were essential for illegal settlement construction. In Britain, it still operates as a normal regulated bank and sponsored an Israel-Britain Chamber event at the ambassador’s residence in February 2025. The occupation money moves through the City clean, despite the UK’s own guidance “strongly advising” businesses against economic activity in illegal settlements. (more…)

Israel’s Illegal Settlement Economy Behind the London Real Estate Fair

On June 8, 1967, Israeli air and naval forces—with covered over insignia—fired rockets, torpedoes and napalm on a U.S. spy ship, the USS Liberty, in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 34 Americans and injuring 174 more. A secret congressional hearing revealed that two of the pilots were Americans—ex-Navy fliers.^[1]

A survivor stated that the ship’s deck afterwards looked “like the floor of a slaughterhouse, with pieces of flesh, bone, hair, various organs and everything else…held in place by dried blood.”

In 2021, the CIA released three one-page information reports from June and October 1967, which quoted sources in Tel Aviv stating: “Israel’s forces knew exactly what flag the LIBERTY was flying” and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan “personally ordered the attack” on the USS Liberty “over the objections of senior military officers, one of whom characterized the attack as “pure murder.”

When an Israeli pilot, Ammon Tavni (aka Even Tov), radioed Israeli air command that the USS Liberty was an American naval vessel, he was ordered to attack it, and then arrested for disobeying orders after he refused.^[2]

In 2001, it was disclosed that the National Security Agency (NSA) had a plane hovering overhead—a Navy EC-121 ferret—whose intercepts confirmed the Liberty attack was deliberate. NSA Director Marshall Carter was told by future Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to “keep his mouth shut” about this.

Highly suspicious also was a) the fact that the nearby U.S. submarine Amberjack did not signal for help, leaving the Russians to be the first to assist the Liberty survivors, and that b) when the Liberty came to port, the Israelis provided no help or medical aid and earlier machine-gunned three life boats launched by the Liberty’s captain in an attempt to save the wounded.

Prior warning messages from the office of the U.S. Defense attaché additionally were misrouted or delayed in convoluted channels through the Pentagon’s worldwide communications system which normally worked perfectly, and White House records were distorted to cover up the timing of when President Lyndon B. Johnson received notification of the attack.^[3]

Commander David E. Lewis, who was temporarily blinded from torpedo blasts, learned later that Admiral Lawrence Geis, the Sixth Fleet’s carrier division commander, twice ordered the launching of aircraft to defend the USS Liberty and each time he received orders from the White House—Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara specifically—to recall them when they were already in the air.^[4]

Ernest Gallo, a USS Liberty survivor and 28-year CIA veteran specializing in electronics, told CovertAction Magazine that, when Geis challenged one of McNamara’s orders, President Johnson came on the line and stated “I don’t care if the ship sinks; I won’t have my ally [Israel] embarrassed.”^[5] (more…)

U.S.S. Liberty Attack Was a Botched False Flag Operation Orchestrated by Lyndon B. Johnson Using the Israelis as a Proxy

If you take this long to investigate something, there is a good chance you are hiding something. FIFA and UEFA, it turns out, have been hiding several things. Ten, to be precise. That is the number of illegal Israeli settlement clubs now operating in the occupied West Bank, at least seven of them playing on land that should fall under the jurisdiction of the Palestine Football Association (Palestine FA). There are also three clubs in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

FIFA promised to investigate illegal settlement clubs in October 2024 amid accusations they breach FIFA and UEFA territorial integrity and anti-racism statutes. Yet while seemingly counting these clubs, FIFA has been broadcasting their games on its streaming platform, FIFA+. One club has been allowed to progress to Israel’s Premier League, after being given a generous helping hand by the UEFA Foundation and the U.S. government. Another club has been selected twice to play in UEFA competition, despite a strict vetting process apparently in place.

These are the findings of a new report I authored on illegal settlement clubs – the first time these have been thoroughly investigated since shortly after President Gianni Infantino and UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin’s presidencies began. They raise an uncomfortable question: are FIFA and UEFA’s leadership moving the goalposts on Israeli occupation of Palestine – effectively legitimizing illegal settlement clubs, and – by extension – Israel’s unlawful presence there? The evidence overwhelmingly suggests so.

Under Infantino and Čeferin’s leadership, illegal settlement clubs have grown in number, size, and stature, in keeping with the current and planned settlement expansion in the West Bank. The inclusion of these clubs within FIFA and UEFA’s structures legitimizes and promotes settlements, as well as facilitating the transfer of a civilian population, including footballers and their families to an occupied territory. It is also helping to implement a system of apartheid against Palestinians through segregated football structures built on their land. (more…)

FIFA is supporting the Israeli occupation by legitimizing clubs that play in illegal West Bank settlements

On June 11, 2026, the Iran-linked threat group Handala posted a claim on its blog that it had compromised California Water Service, known as Cal Water, and published a 5GB proof-of-concept data dump to back it up.

California Water Service is one of the largest investor-owned water utilities in the United States. It is a subsidiary of California Water Service Group and provides drinking water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company serves hundreds of thousands of customer connections across numerous communities in California, as well as smaller operations in other states through affiliated utilities.

The group said the intrusion was retaliation for recent US actions in Iran, and claimed it had the ability to disrupt water access but chose not to. For now.

Cybersecurity firm Dataminr’s analysis of the published dump identified two separate systems that Handala reached. The first is a customer billing database containing names, service addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, and payment histories across multiple Cal Water districts. The second is an internal RTKBase deployment, an open-source GNSS base station platform used by field crews to receive centimeter-accurate GPS corrections when mapping and maintaining water infrastructure. (more…)

Iran-Linked Handala Breached a California Water Utility. It Could Have Done Worse, and It Knows That.

With just two weeks remaining before the SSPX consecrations in Econe, Switzerland, Catholics around the world are once again asking the question that has divided good men for decades:

Is the crisis in the Church serious enough to justify extraordinary measures to preserve the Faith?

In this episode of The Remnant Underground, Michael Matt examines the terrifying global collapse of Christian morality, the silence of Church leaders (it’s what they’re NOT saying that’s creating the morality crisis), and the growing concerns of Catholic parents trying to protect their children in an increasingly corrupt culture.

From Pride Month celebrations in historically Catholic cities to the Vatican’s continued blessing of same-sex “couples”, Michael points out that the “state of emergency” Archbishop Lefebvre identified in 1988 has reached epic proportions, and asks if the morality crisis itself isn’t reason enough to disobey a papal mandate since souls are at stake.

This episode also explores:

• • Canon Law and the “salvation of souls” principle

• • Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s missionary legacy

• • Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s defense of the SSPX

• • The future of the Traditional Latin Mass movement

• • Catholic restoration efforts in Africa, Tokyo, and beyond

• • Uniting the Clans

Whether you support or oppose the upcoming consecrations, this discussion challenges Catholics to focus on the real crisis confronting the Church and the world today.

This is not 1988. There will be no circular firing squad this time.

John explores the 1949 Assemblies of God resolution that formally denounced the “New Order of the Latter Rain” and asks a pressing question: Did Latter Rain actually end—or was it redistributed and rebranded? Walking line-by-line through the six points of the General Council’s denunciation, he compares each concern to structures now visible in the New Apostolic Reformation and segments of the broader charismatic movement.

From impartation theology and modern apostles to prophetic utterances, mediated confession, and doctrinal innovation, this episode traces historical continuity from North Battleford through the Voice of Healing era and into contemporary apostolic networks. Drawing on documented history and decades of movement development, John argues that while the label “Latter Rain” faded, its underlying framework survived and evolved.

Chapters

• Introduction

• Why Ask If Latter Rain Ended

• What Latter Rain Was And How It Spread

• Reading The 1949 Resolution And The “Disclaimer” Language

• Issue 1: Impartation By Laying On Of Hands

• Issue 2: Present-Day Apostles And Prophets As Foundation

• Issue 3: Confession To Man And Deliverance Practices

• Issue 4: Tongues As Missionary Language Equipment

• Issue 5: Imposing Personal Leadings By Utterances

• Issue 6: Distortions Of Scripture And Extra-Biblical Doctrine

• “Unity Of The Spirit” And Why Division Was The Alarm

• Rebranding, Revenue, And The Post-Resolution Networks

• Closing And Call To Action