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By Tracy Turner
Safeway. Albertsons. Vons. Trader Joe's. Aldi.
These household names conjure an image of bustling aisles, fresh produce gleaming under fluorescent lights, healthful "organic" labels waving like holy banners over shining apples and waxy cucumbers. The mythos: wholesome, untainted abundance. The reality: an unholy amalgam of deception, chemical contamination, and industrial sleight of hand.
You, the unsuspecting consumer, push your sanitized cart past rows of "GMO-Free!" stickers and "All-Natural!" slogans, believing you are voting with your dollar for purity. But what if you were told you that the majority of products under these virtuous labels are a toxic shell game — riddled with pesticide residues, fortified with Euro-banned chemical additives, and adulterated with third-world counterfeits? That the grand cathedral of American grocery commerce is in fact a Trojan horse?
Let us dismantle the lie.
The Phantom Divide: European Standards vs. American Deregulation
Chapter One: The Lords of War and Waste
By Ned Lud
It begins not with a bang but with a gleam of wealth, ambition, and steel-fisted dominion hidden behind thousand-dollar smiles and conference hall handshakes. They gather the Bilderbergers, Trilateralists, World Economic Forum titans, Rothschild emissaries, Davos whisperers, and Council on Foreign Relations architects—the very names we were taught not to question, the same faces we were trained to trust.
These modern Ferengi—butchers in bespoke suits—plot beneath shimmering chandeliers from Chantilly to Lisbon. The fruits of their meetings are death and debris. Refugee trails lined with the skeletal remains of children. Rainforests reduced to ash. Oceans choked on plastic. Skies smeared in the black oil of empire. Fields salted with debt.
And when we point to them—to Henry Kissinger (Bilderberg regular, architect of Southeast Asian slaughter), to David Rockefeller (founder of the Trilateral Commission, kingmaker of global finance), to Klaus Schwab (engineer of the "Great Reset"), to the Rothschild banking dynasty (brokers of war and peace at a price), to Eric Schmidt (Google), Alex Karp (Palantir), Jeff Bezos (Amazon-Defense), Bill Gates (vaccine tsar and farmland collector)—the Mockingbird Media squawks back: "Paranoia! Conspiracy theory!"
Ned Lud dedicates this to Mark Aurelius
Netanyahu: The Prime Minister of Permanent Emergency
The Godless Horseman: War Eternal, Peace Never
He doesn’t ride in on a white horse—he arrives in Merkava armor, draped in Holocaust memory and wrapped in the Iron Dome of impunity. Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is not just the souless horseman—he is the conductor of this apocalyptic orchestra, the Netanyahu Doctrine incarnate: permanent siege, permanent justification, permanent war. He is the architect of an Israel where the boot never lifts, and the algorithm never blinks.
Since October 2023, Netanyahu’s military has executed a campaign of digital and kinetic annihilation in Gaza, marshaling AI tools like Lavender and Gospel to generate so-called kill lists with a margin of error written in blood. Lavender—designed to flag tens of thousands of potential targets within minutes—was not a tool of precision but of “mass assassination,” according to whistleblowers reported by +972 Magazine and The Guardian (Lavender AI, 2024).
by Janet Campbell
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Children on the margins rarely have the luxury of being heard. Their needs are either diluted in policy debates or romanticized in feel-good campaigns that vanish as quickly as they arrive. But improving the lives of vulnerable children doesn’t require sweeping legislation or grand gestures. It starts at the intersection of awareness, proximity, and everyday action—rooted in empathy rather than saviorism.
By David Swanson
Late last century I figured out that I needed to work on a job dedicated to making the world a better place. I know not everyone can find such a job if they try. I appreciate all the other useful jobs that millions of people do — if not the useless and destructive ones that millions of other people do. But I do want people to use some of their spare time to help out with the cratering world. In every moment of the past quarter century there have been people diligently creating catastrophes — wars, ecosystemic destruction, mass incarceration, poverty, etc. — and yet there have been moments in which people in my corner of the world have increasingly said things to me along the lines of “Wow it seems like maybe soon I’ll need to ask you about that activism stuff.”
By Mark Aurelius
One can feel the anger. One can feel the rage and disgust. It is a resentment severe but it is far from being some kind of blind hatred.
Who could have thought Trump’s White House and Cabinet picks would be this fr..king frustrating, and display this incompetence and hubris show so quickly into his second game?
There was supposed to have been some positives to outweigh all the inordinate risks.
[Note: the word ‘frustrate’ comes to the English language by way of Latin frustratus, from frustra (adv.) "in vain, in error," which is related to fraus "injury, harm," a word of uncertain origin (see fraud).]
I. The New American Panopticon
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, exposing the government’s lies about the Vietnam War. Today, a different kind of betrayal unfolds—not through war, but through data, algorithms, and silicon.
The dream of liberty, long the bedrock of American identity, is being replaced by an invisible prison of our own making: a Thought Prison, where predictive policing, mass surveillance, and weaponized AI control not just what we do, but what we are allowed to think.
The builders of this panopticon no longer hide. Donald Trump and J.D. Vance publicly advocate expanding surveillance powers domestically. Meanwhile, corporate oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel supply the infrastructure: Palantir’s Gotham, Anduril’s Lattice, Clearview AI’s facial recognition engines. They are not adversaries of the state; they are the state.
Tracy Turner
In recent years, Trader Joe's and Aldi have emerged as successful grocery store chains, with their private-label products that usually bear organic labels. But behind such appealing labels lies a disturbing reality: a significant proportion of these products carry pesticide residues, some even greater than in conventionally produced fruits and vegetables. This article delves into the myths surrounding the "organic" offerings of these chains, the pervasiveness of pesticide contamination, and the pivotal role that consumer consciousness plays in ensuring food safety.
The Organic Label: A Misleading Assurance
The "organic" label is regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which has set standards for organic production practices. These organic standards prohibit the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). But the enforcement of such standards is not faultless. A 2024 Consumer Reports analysis revealed that 20% of American fruit and vegetables, including so-called organic ones, had pesticide residues on them. Frightening in its implications was that some of the residues were of pesticides that had been banned over a decade ago, which raises questions about the efficacy of current organic certification mechanisms.
By Chris Spencer
I. The New Alchemists: Turning Paranoia into Profit
In the digital crucible of the 21st century, a strange alchemy has emerged: paranoia transmutes into profit, and the specter of chaos becomes a business model. Surveillance—once the province of intelligence agencies operating in the penumbra of national security—has become a public-private partnership, its tentacles reaching from Langley's corridors to Palo Alto's cafes. The Trump Musk Vance Peter Thiel Mossad Unit 8200 Federal Government is building a Precrime Dragnet and a Precrime Prison Complex in El Salvadore. Precrime is not a distant future but a present reality that demands immediate attention.
This Brave New World isn't science fiction. It's a business plan.
The alchemists of this new age are not wizards but entrepreneurs and operatives: venture capitalists (J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel) who regard democracy as inefficient, engineers who build platforms for predictive policing rather than public discourse, and politicians who launder authoritarian impulses through populist bromides. Together, they form a new alliance—a data-intelligence-industrial complex—whose ideology could be summed up in two chilling words: preemptive governance and mind control. This power dynamic underscores the need for democratic oversight of these technologies.
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
Approaching 50 years since the end of the American War, as the Vietnamese call it, and something over 70 years since the start of it, depending when you start the clock, truth and reconciliation remain incomplete. I don’t mean for the people of Vietnam, who seem, from what little I know, in general to have a better grasp of both truth and reconciliation than the U.S. government or corporate media. I also don’t mean truth and reconciliation between governments, which really don’t traffic in either. I mean truth and reconciliation within the United States.
The U.S. government and society have yet to reach any sort of consensus on apologizing to the people of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the world for the atrocity that was the war on Vietnam. The complex necessity of apologizing to and blaming those who did it — with more apology the lower the rank and more blame the higher — has yet to fully win out over the grotesque absurdity of thanking them and calling the U.S. military’s largest crime in at least these 70 years a “service.” It is of course possible to wish nothing but well for people while also refraining from thanking them for an atrocity.