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Archives for July 2025

MAGA Embraces Forever Wars With Foreign Policy Flip

Trump’s MAGA movement has shed its anti-war stance and embraced the neoconservative foreign policy consensus, backing sanctions and military escalation worldwide.

Greg Stoker
By Greg Stoker
SOP Ukraine

Over the past six months, the MAGA movement has undergone a dramatic transformation, shedding what little remained of its anti-establishment, anti-war identity. The populist rhetoric that once promised to end “forever wars” and put “America First” now echoes the neoconservative consensus it once claimed to oppose. Donald Trump’s foreign policy

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Trump’s ICE Raids Target Working-Class Immigrants, Not Criminals

Despite claims of targeting “criminals,” ICE raids in California are sweeping up undocumented workers with no convictions, street vendors, day laborers, and families trying to survive.

Jalyssa Dugrot
By Jalyssa Dugrot
LA ICE RAIDS

Editor’s Note | This report is part of MintPress News’ on-the-ground coverage of escalating ICE operations under the Trump administration. Reporter Jalyssa Dugrot spent several days embedded in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood, speaking directly with undocumented immigrants, day laborers, and organizers impacted by the raids. As ICE operations

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Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence

This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli spyware, blacklists, and military-linked firms.

Greg Stoker
By Greg Stoker
State of Play EP. 58 Web

This week on State of Play, host Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot, an independent journalist recently arrested while covering anti-ICE protests for MintPress News in Los Angeles, and Robert Inlakesh, a Middle East analyst and MintPress contributor known for his reporting on politics, repression, and empire, to examine a rapidly expanding

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Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans

Internal ad records show Israel spent millions on YouTube propaganda targeting Europe, ads that breach Google’s own rules and frame the war on Gaza as a defense of Western civilization.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Google Ads

While it continues its conflict with its neighbors, Israel is fighting another war just as intensely, spending gigantic amounts of money bombarding Europe with messaging justifying their actions, and scaremongering Europeans that Iranian nuclear missiles will soon be turning their cities into rubble. A MintPress study has found that, since it

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Chris Hedges: The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, has become a target of US sanctions for her candid reports on the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges explores her warnings, her courage, and the global silence surrounding Israel’s crimes.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
Francesca Albanese speaking at a conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 10, 2025.

Originally published at ScheerPost on July 02, 2025. Republished with permission. When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is

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Big Beautiful Cover Up: Epstein, ICE and the MAGA War State

Epstein’s gone, the files are sealed, and Trump’s DOJ says the case is over. Meanwhile, ICE becomes the third-largest military force on Earth. Greg Stoker unpacks why the real story was never justice, it was control.

Greg Stoker
By Greg Stoker
State of Play EP. 58 Web

The Department of Justice has quietly declared the Epstein case closed—no client list, no criminal conspiracy, and no further disclosures. Despite years of public pressure and speculation, the DOJ and FBI now assert that the contents of the Epstein files primarily involve sensitive victim information and materials that, if released, could endanger

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