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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

The military industrial complex is cheering today.

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

ABC: “The toll from a strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab in southern Iran has risen to 64 dead and 92 injured, according to Iran's semiofficial Tasnim News Agency, which cited the local governor.” abc7ny.com/live-updates...

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

BBE INDEPTH Polanski and Farage don't agree. But they have more in common than you might think 1 hour ago Laura Kuenssberg > Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg One is a former stockbroker from the south who, by his own proud admission, loves smoking, drinking and women. The other's a proud vegan, gay, northern former actor, who told me he'd never drunk a drop. But the jubilant Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage have rather a lot in common.

Laura K and BBC News editorial in full-on meltdown mode now, by the looks of it

"Soft-left socialism? Fascism, basically"

(Spoiler, so you don't have to endure what I just read: the thing they have in common is they're both leaders of political parties in the UK, and sometimes on the telly)

Remember, the dim-witted megalomaniacal narcissistic psychopath who has just started a major regional war in the Middle East has unfettered control of approximately 5,177 nuclear warheads.

❗️BREAKING: Explosions are heard in the capital of Iran, Tehran.

What??????

The U.S. officially removed Colonel Nathan McCormack from his position at the Joint Chiefs of Staff for calling Israel a "death cult" and saying America is "acting as Israel's proxy."

In America, honesty about Israel is the only unforgivable sin

Israel Responsible for Two-Thirds of Journalist Deaths in 2025: Press Freedom Group | Common Dreams New report reveals Israel responsible for two-thirds of journalist deaths in 2025. CPJ calls for accountability to protect press freedom.

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US-Israel launch airstrikes on Iran.

Newly revealed Israeli 1948 files expose ’genocidal’ war orders New Israeli military files reveal written orders to ’kill’ and ’annihilate’ Palestinians as more than 700,000 were driven out in the 1948 Nakba.

‘Yisrael Carmi, a battalion commander, described the seizure of Bir al-Saba: "I gave an order to annihilate anyone who appeared in the street, whether they resisted or did not resist… Until then everyone was killed – women and children and everyone."’

Israel's Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is personally handing out demolition and eviction orders to Palestinians.

“We are the landlord here”

“We will take what remains”

Vile

Beyond belief.

Israeli settlers raided Khirbet Samra in the northern Jordan Valley, harassing Palestinian farmers and forcing them to leave.

#REPORT | Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian vehicle, causing damage, at the western entrance of Al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah.

(26/2/2026)

30 years.

This video should be on every network.

RT if the USA should take Tommy Robinson.

He is a violent criminal scumbag we don't want him and the USA seems to be collecting people like that.

Two-year-old Raghad, four-year-old Hamza, and their father Abdullah Maher Al-Sousi were all killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

Watch Trump promise Republicans in 2016 that in 2026 he would either be locked up, living in another country or buried under a golf course.

Raw Story: A nearly blind Burmese refugee who was dumped in Buffalo, NY, by Border Patrol agents last week was found dead, unable to find his way back home through miles of freezing weather.

It's hard to watch their continued disregard for human life.💔
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Aust diplomats' families told to leave Israel, Lebanon The families of Australian diplomats based in Israel and Lebanon have been told to leave as the security situation in those countries worsens.

The Australian ‌government has told dependants of Australian diplomats in Israel and Lebanon to ‌leave the two Middle East countries, citing a deteriorating security ‌situation in the region, the foreign ministry said.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/2026/02...

'Moderate' Centrist Yair Lapid, following Huckabee's interview:

By the INRA working definition, denying the Palestinians the right to self determination by claiming that Palestine was given to the Jews by a Supernatural Being is an example of antipalestinianism.
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Tell that to Diane Abbot.