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Mercury Fillings Raise Mercury Levels Throughout Your Body

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Dr Mercola

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  • Dental “silver fillings” are made with roughly 50% mercury, and researchers found adults with amalgam fillings carried significantly higher blood mercury levels than people without them
  • The study showed that mercury exposure rose as the number of amalgam filling surfaces increased, meaning every additional filling added to the body’s toxic burden
  • Mercury vapor released from fillings travels through the bloodstream, crosses into the brain and placenta, and accumulates inside tissues over time even when blood tests appear relatively normal
  • Everyday habits such as chewing gum, grinding your teeth, and drinking very hot beverages increase mercury vapor release from amalgam fillings and raise ongoing exposure
  • Choosing mercury-free dentistry, avoiding unsafe removal procedures, and supporting efforts to ban amalgam nationwide help reduce long-term mercury exposure for you and your family

When your dentist says “silver filling,” picture this instead: a paste that’s half mercury by weight — the same neurotoxin that closed down hat factories in the 1800s and triggered international treaties in the 2010s. Yet it’s still being drilled into American teeth, including children’s, every single day. That detail rarely comes up at the appointment, and most patients walk out of the office not knowing what was just placed inside their mouth.

An analysis published in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine set out to answer a question that should have been settled decades ago: do these fillings actually raise mercury levels inside the human body?1 Researchers turned to a large, nationally representative dataset of American adults, measured mercury directly in blood and urine, and compared people with amalgam fillings to people without them. What they found has serious implications for how Americans think about routine dental care.

Mercury attacks your body on three fronts: it inflames the nervous system, damages the kidneys that filter it out, and poisons the mitochondria — the tiny power plants inside every cell that produce your energy. That last point explains why fatigue is so often the first symptom: when your cellular engines sputter, everything else slows down with them.

Its symptoms — fatigue, brain fog, headaches, trouble concentrating, irritability, and disrupted sleep — are so easily blamed on aging, stress, or a busy schedule that the underlying cause often goes unrecognized for years. Once mercury enters your body, it doesn’t stay put. It slips past the blood-brain barrier, crosses the placenta during pregnancy, and quietly accumulates in tissues over time.

That’s why the growing movement toward mercury-free dentistry is gaining ground. Below, I’ll walk you through exactly what the researchers discovered, what it means for you if you already have amalgam fillings, and the practical steps you can take to lower your exposure starting today.

Before you finish reading, make sure you reach the action alert near the end of this article. A national push to ban mercury fillings is underway right now, and public comments to federal regulators could help decide whether this outdated practice finally disappears from U.S. dentistry.

Mercury Levels Climbed as Fillings Added Up

For the study, investigators analyzed data from 1,377 adults ages 18 to 70, representing more than 180 million weighted Americans, meaning the smaller study group was statistically adjusted to reflect the larger U.S. adult population. Instead of relying on guesswork or self-reported symptoms, the researchers measured actual mercury concentrations in blood and urine samples, then compared people with amalgam fillings to people without them.

• Adults with amalgam fillings carried measurably higher mercury levels — The researchers found that nearly 61% of adults fell into the “amalgam exposed” group, meaning they had at least one mercury filling surface. Blood mercury concentrations rose significantly in those adults compared to people without amalgam fillings. Blood total mercury levels were 1.34 times higher, while inorganic mercury — the form most closely linked to dental amalgams — was 1.33 times higher in the exposed group.

• More fillings meant more mercury circulating in blood — Researchers identified a direct relationship between the number of amalgam surfaces and blood inorganic mercury levels. Every additional filling surface added more mercury burden to the bloodstream. Inorganic mercury is not the same as the methylmercury commonly linked to fish exposure. The study showed dental fillings acted as their own unique source of mercury exposure inside the body.

• Investigators estimated how much mercury vapor people absorbed daily — Researchers used a mathematical system that estimates how chemicals move through the body to calculate daily mercury vapor exposure from amalgams. They factored in body weight, urine mercury levels, and urine flow rates to estimate how much mercury vapor adults absorbed each day.

• Some adults exceeded federal safety thresholds — Earlier findings referenced in the study estimated that about 16 million adults received mercury vapor exposures above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) safety limit from amalgam fillings alone. Even more alarming, researchers noted California’s mercury vapor safety threshold is roughly 10 times stricter than the federal EPA limit. That gap highlights how differently agencies define “safe” exposure.

• Pregnant women faced elevated exposure too — The paper referenced previous analyses showing roughly 36% of pregnant women carried amalgam fillings, and about 600,000 pregnant women exceeded the EPA mercury vapor limit from dental amalgams. That becomes especially concerning because mercury crosses the placenta and reaches the developing fetus.

Mercury Moves Through Your Entire Body Once It Leaves the Filling

Researchers explained that mercury vapor enters through the lungs, rapidly absorbs into blood, and then spreads into tissues and organs throughout the body. Your bloodstream essentially becomes a transport system that carries mercury everywhere.

Mercury vapor dissolves into fatty tissues — including the brain, which is roughly 60% fat — and spreads through cell membranes with almost no resistance. That allows it to cross the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain, while also crossing the placental barrier during pregnancy. Once mercury enters tissues, it oxidizes — meaning it changes form chemically — which traps it inside cells and makes removal much harder.

• Blood tests only show part of the problem — Researchers warned that blood mercury levels don’t fully reflect how much mercury accumulates in organs and tissues. They cited earlier autopsy research showing the number of amalgam fillings correlated with tissue mercury levels even when blood measurements did not. Your bloodwork could look relatively modest while mercury still accumulates inside organs over many years.

• Scientists ruled out several common confounding factors — The investigators adjusted their statistical models for age, sex, ethnicity, body weight, and country of birth to make sure the mercury findings were not explained by unrelated variables. Even after those adjustments, the relationship between amalgam fillings and mercury exposure remained strong.

• The researchers directly called for reducing amalgam use — Investigators stated that “efforts should be made to reduce/eliminate the continued use of amalgams.” They also recommended that people who want to lower mercury exposure consult dentists trained in safe amalgam removal. This is an important detail because improper drilling releases large bursts of mercury vapor directly into the air you breathe.

• Your daily habits influence how much mercury releases from fillings — Every bite, chew, and clench releases a small puff of mercury vapor — invisible, odorless, and inhaled directly into your lungs. Over a lifetime of three meals a day, that’s roughly 65,000 chewing sessions per decade, each one adding to a cumulative dose your body didn’t ask for. Hot drinks and chronic gum chewing raise exposure further because heat and friction accelerate mercury vaporization.

Make Mercury-Free Dentistry Your Baseline

Reading this with a mouthful of amalgam fillings is unsettling. The good news is that mercury exposure isn’t permanent destiny; your body has real defenses, and the choices you make starting today determine whether your burden grows or shrinks.

1. Treat mercury fillings like any other toxic metal exposure — Before choosing a new dentist, ask: “Does your office place mercury amalgam fillings on patients?” If the answer is yes, keep looking. Mercury doesn’t belong in your teeth any more than lead belongs in your drinking water.

Don’t let the term “silver filling” soften the reality of what’s inside your mouth. Amalgam fillings contain roughly 50% mercury by weight. Choosing a mercury-free dentist immediately lowers your future exposure and protects your family from unnecessary toxic burden.

2. Walk away from deceptive language and outdated practices — If a dental office avoids the word “mercury” entirely, pay attention. Clear language matters because informed consent matters. You deserve to know exactly what material goes into your body before a drill ever touches your teeth.

If you’re a parent, this becomes even more important. Children absorb toxic exposures differently than adults because their brains and nervous systems are still developing. Refusing outdated materials protects more than your own health. It changes demand in the marketplace and pressures clinics to modernize.

3. Challenge insurance plans that default to mercury fillings — Many dental plans still reimburse amalgam as the cheapest standard option. That financial pressure keeps mercury dentistry alive. Before treatment begins, ask your insurer exactly which materials are covered and whether mercury-free alternatives qualify for reimbursement.

If your plan penalizes you financially for choosing mercury-free care, create a written objection trail. Send a short letter or email to member services, your employer benefits department, or your state Medicaid office if applicable. Insurance companies track complaints carefully. Enough documented objections force policy reviews and coverage changes over time.

4. Lower mercury vapor exposure if you still have amalgam fillings — If removal isn’t financially realistic right now, focus on reducing vapor release day by day. Avoid chewing gum constantly, especially on the side with amalgam fillings. Limit very hot drinks directly against those teeth because heat increases mercury vaporization.

Refuse whitening, deep cleaning, or polishing procedures performed directly over amalgam fillings. Both the abrasion and the bleaching chemistry can spike mercury vapor release in the moment, meaning a 30-minute hygienist visit can deliver a mercury dose that takes your body weeks to process.

Most important, avoid casual drilling by dentists who don’t follow strict safe-removal protocols. Improper removal creates a massive short-term mercury exposure spike that can overwhelm your lungs and nervous system. These steps buy you time while you find a qualified biological dentist and get your health in the right place for safe removal.

5. Create pressure that dentists and insurers can’t ignore — Call local dental offices and ask one direct question: “Does your office place mercury amalgam fillings?” Share the answers with friends, family members, coworkers, and parents at your child’s school. Leave positive reviews for clinics that practice completely mercury-free dentistry.

Markets shift when patients change their behavior. Dentists notice when people start choosing offices based on mercury-free policies, and insurers notice when enough members reject amalgam coverage. Every conversation, review, and phone call chips away at the system that keeps mercury in people’s mouths. Once enough people reject the default, the default changes.

Choose a Biological Dentist for Further Care

Biological dentists have undergone training that equips them to view and treat your oral health as an integral part of your overall health. They’re also trained how to safely remove mercury fillings. The unsafe removal of your mercury fillings could expose you to toxic amounts of poisonous mercury.

Before scheduling amalgam removal, work with your integrative practitioner to ensure you’re healthy and your body’s detoxification pathways are well supported; this typically means optimizing nutrition, gut health, and mineral status.

The reason for this preparation is practical: during removal, even with proper safety protocols, some additional mercury exposure is possible. A body that is nutritionally depleted or under immune stress will handle that exposure less efficiently. To help you on your search for a biological dentist, refer to the resources below:

• Consumers for Dental Choice

• Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions (DAMS) — Email them here or call 651-644-4572 for an information packet

• Holistic Dental Association

• Huggins Applied Healing

• International Academy of Biological Dentistry and Medicine (IABDM)

• International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT)

• International Association of Mercury Safe Dentists

• Talk International

Action Alert: Tell the FDA to Ban Mercury Fillings Now: https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/contact-fda

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Israeli foreign agent took over The Charlie Kirk Show days after his killing

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By Max Blumenthal

Jun 18, 2026

Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), have come under the control of the Israel-directed forces he spent his last months antagonizing

The Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel tasked with seeding American media with Zionist propaganda. It is part of a whopping $46 million dollar annual contract between the Israeli government and Brad Parscale, the former chief of staff for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. This may be the largest lobbying contract in the history of foreign influence operations in the US.

On September 10, 2025, Kirk was assassinated during the first stop on his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley State University. Eight days later, Parscale registered as a foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assuming responsibility for a propaganda blitz “tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast outlets.”

The deal meant that the Charlie Kirk Show, which had been distributed by the Salem Media Network since 2020, was placed under the control of a foreign agent for Israel, with Parscale assuming a role as Salem’s Chief Strategy Officer. According to the terms of the contract, Parscale’s Clock Tower would “integrate its pro-Israel messaging into Salem Media Network properties.”

According to a December 2025 report by Radio Ink, The Charlie Kirk Show “will continue as a podcast on the Salem Podcast Network, as Salem Media ‘will maintain its close professional and personal relationship with Turning Point USA.’”

Since Kirk’s killing, his successors have done their best to bury his vehement opposition to war on Iran, as well as his public fits of disgust with Netanyahu and his army of lobbyists in the US. Kirk’s widow and replacement as TPUSA CEO, Erika Kirk, now insists that she and her husband never wavered in their support for Israel. She has also been unwilling to state what her late husband would have thought about the war the US and Israel waged on Iran this year.

“My husband isn’t here to say whether or not we should be at war with Iran,” Erika Kirk said in response to a question at a May 2026 TPUSA event. “I would love for him to be here right now and tell us if we should or should not.”

However, in the months before his killing, Kirk left little mystery about where he stood on the US imposing war on Iran. In one of many tirades against attacking Iran, he slammed Sen. Lindsey Graham and other cheerleaders for war as “pathologically insane.” He went on to warn that a regime change war inevitably “creates a quagmire. And then there is civil war.”

Kirk’s replacement dishonestly denies Israel connection

Since Kirk’s killing, TPUSA’s longtime communications director, Andrew Kolvet, has filled his anchor chair on The Charlie Kirk Show. During an episode of the show this May, Kolvet took aim at antiwar Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who had just been defeated by a Trump-endorsed primary challenger backed with a record $15 million in donations from Israel lobby organizations. While acknowledging that Kirk had been a “big fan” of Massie, Kolvet claimed that his late colleague had become “really frustrated” in private with the congressman’s obstruction of Trump’s agenda.

The curiously sourced comments prompted Massie to ask Grok, the AI chatbot of Twitter/X, “is it true that the Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a registered foreign agent of Israel?”

After sustained nudging by fellow X users, Grok finally coughed up a reply confirming that, “Yes, there’s a substantive connection here worth noting.” Grok went on to explain that “the distributor (Salem Media) has direct high-level overlap and active collaboration with a registered Israeli foreign agent.”

Grok’s reply directly contradicted Kolvet’s attempt to deny Massie’s allegation. According to Kolvet, The Charlie Kirk Show The CK Show “is distributed on [Steve Bannon’s Real America’s Voice], not Salem. I’ve been here for the entire journey. Booked all the guests.. Developed all of the editorial. We follow Bannon’s War Room.”

In the wake of Kirk’s killing, however, Kolvet explicitly thanked the Israel-controlled Salem Media for continuing to distribute The Charlie Kirk Show. “Salem has been so gracious through this process and even encouraged us to continue broadcasting the show on the Salem Radio Network,” Kolvet told Radio Ink.

To this day, The Charlie Kirk Show is hosted on the website of the Salem Podcast Network.

Kolvet’s attempt at damage control had failed, deepening the public backlash against TPUSA for betraying its founder’s evolving positions on Israel and Iran.

Bringing TPUSA back into line with Israel

As The Grayzone reported, in the weeks leading up to Kirk’s killing, the TPUSA founder agonized over the growing pressure he felt from Israel’s cutouts, and from Netanyahu himself, to preside over a blitzkreig of youth-oriented Zionist propaganda. On August 6, 2025, just over a month before his death, Kirk openly raged against Jewish “leaders” and “stakeholders” harassing him for his criticism of Israeli policies. “It’s all of the sudden: ‘oh, Charlie: he’s no longer with us.’ Wait a second—what does ‘with us’ mean, exactly? I’m an American, okay? I represent this country,” he fulminated to podcast host Megyn Kelly.

Days before Kirk’s public rant, he attended a private retreat convened in the Hamptons by Zionist billionaire Bill Ackman. There, as The Grayzone revealed, an Israel lobby operative named Natasha Hausdorff unloaded on Kirk for complaining about “moral blackmail” from Tel Aviv. By this point, Kirk had rejected a massive infusion of Israel-directed donations to TPUSA, and was on his way to refusing a personal offer from Netanyahu to visit Jerusalem. He was also providing space on stage at TPUSA events for some of the most outspoken right-wing critics of Israel, from Tucker Carlson to Megyn Kelly to the anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith.

On September 6, 2025, an arch-Zionist centi-millionaire named Robert Shillman denounced Kirk from the dais at a private gala in Los Angeles, expressing regret for showering his fortune on TPUSA now that its founder had turned against Israel. As The Grayzone revealed, Shillman had just withdrawn a $2 million donation to TPUSA as punishment for Kirk’s heresy.

Four days later, Kirk was shot through the neck by a sniper in front of thousands of attendees of his so-called American Comeback Tour.

Just over a week after the shocking assassination, the Israeli Foreign Ministry effectively took control over the Charlie Kirk Show through its lobbying contract with Parscale’s Clock Tower X. Given the statements Kirk made both publicly and in private to confidants about Israel in the weeks before his killing, it seems unlikely he would have consented to any agreement that gave a registered lobbyist for Israel responsibility for distributing his show.

Days later, on September 15, one of the most visible propagandists of Netanyahu’s political network in the US, Ben Shapiro, appeared in TPUSA studios to make a dramatic announcement. Seated beside Kirk’s former co-hosts, Shapiro declared that his Daily Wire outlet was donating $1 million to TPUSA to supposedly “bring people back to Christ, and bring people back to church, and back to biblical values.”

Given that the Daily Wire was bleeding money, laying off staff and losing viewers at a rapid rate by this point, the whopping donation raised questions about whether Shapiro was serving as a pass-through for Israel lobbyists exploiting Kirk’s unexpected death to restore control over TPUSA.

To date, there is no evidence that the state of Israel was responsible for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Yet it is undeniable that Kirk’s killing removed one of the greatest obstacles to Israel’s plans to compel Trump to launch a massive regime change war on Iran.

As The Grayzone reported, Kirk was the only figure in Trump’s inner circle to personally appeal to the president against committing US forces to Israel’s 12-day-long assault on Iran in June 2025. Trump “barked” at Kirk for his disobedience, according to a source, and angrily dispatched him. Days later, Trump ordered US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, setting the stage for Operation Epic Fury the following year. This account has since been confirmed by Vice President J.D. Vance.

Burying Charlie Kirk’s evolution

When Trump launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, he initiated an imbroglio that would fulfill Kirk’s most dire warnings about the consequences of waging a regime change war on Tehran. Four days after the war began, TPUSA posted a video on X implying that he would have supported the assault on Iran. The post ignited another yet angry backlash, with hundreds of angry commenters denouncing the organization for misrepresenting Kirk’s vehemently stated opposition to the war.

By this point, Erika Kirk had been working to bring TPUSA back into line with the Israeli agenda which her martyred husband had defied.

On December 13, 2025, Kirk’s widow starred in a televised town hall hosted by self-described “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss and broadcast by CBS News, which had been purchased by the billionaire Israeli asset David Ellison four months prior. During the carefully stage-managed and cringeworthy spectacle, Weiss nudged Kirk on her late husband’s views on Israel.

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Israeli forces launch fresh ground incursions into Syria’s Quneitra, interrogate locals

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Israeli occupation forces are seen during a ground incursion into an undisclosed location in Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra.

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While Israeli military incursions and activities in southern Syria, along with harassment of local citizens under the inaction of the ruling Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime, have become recurrent over the past year, Syrian sources have detailed a recent ground incursion. 

The sources stated that Israeli forces, onboard nine military vehicles, raided the village of al-Asbah on the outskirts of Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra near the occupied strategic Golan Heights early on Thursday.

Israeli forces on Wednesday carried out a series of raids on residential homes in the southern countryside of Quneitra, including the interrogation of a local journalist.

Local sources said the incursion targeted ten homes in the town of Saida in southern Quneitra countryside.

Among the properties searched was the home of Sanad al-Hindawi, a journalist and employee of the Quneitra Media Directorate. Sources said Israeli soldiers questioned Hindawi inside his residence during the raid.

No arrests were reported during the incursion.

The raids came two days after Israeli forces broke into the village of Saida al-Golan in southern Quneitra countryside, and established a temporary checkpoint at the village junction, where pedestrians and passing vehicles were subjected to inspections.

Following the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government in early December 2024, the Israeli military has been conducting airstrikes targeting military installations, facilities, and arsenals previously operated by the Syrian army.

Israel has faced widespread criticism for ending the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria and taking advantage of the chaos in the war-torn nation to seize territory.

The UN, along with several Arab nations, condemned Israel’s actions as breaches of international law and violations of Syria’s sovereignty.

Despite the HTS’s pledges of cooperation with Tel Aviv, Israel has remained unwilling to withdraw from Syria.

The two sides have been engaged in on-and-off talks to reach a “security agreement”, but no deal or concrete progress has been announced.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his forces to push deeper into Syrian territory beyond the 1967-occupied Golan Heights and seize several strategic locations.

The bulk of the Israeli attacks have been concentrated in the southern Syrian governorates of Quneitra, Dara’a, and Damascus, which account for nearly 80 percent of all recorded Israeli attacks.

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China Warns Israel Against Obstructing Iran-US Understanding

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian. (File Photo)

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China has warned Israel against obstructing the implementation of the Iran-US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), urging all parties to take concrete steps to support regional peace and create conditions for future negotiations.

Beijing on Thursday welcomed the signing of the memorandum, reaffirming its support for peace and stability in West Asia and the Persian Gulf region.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian warned Israel against undermining the implementation of the deal, as he addressed concerns over the agreement’s first phase and the next round of negotiations between Tehran and Washington.

“At this critical stage, relevant parties, including Israel, need to follow the overwhelming trend of peace and stability in the region and do more to help Iran and the US implement the deal and promote stage two negotiations, rather than the other way around,” Jian stated.

The Chinese diplomat further emphasized the strategic nature of ties between Beijing and Tehran, describing the two countries as longstanding partners committed to deepening cooperation.

“As a comprehensive strategic partner of Iran, China stands ready to consolidate and deepen political mutual trust with Iran, enhance mutually-beneficial cooperation in various fields, and bring the China-Iran comprehensive strategic partnership forward,” he said.

Beijing’s remarks reflect growing international support for the Iran-US MoU and opposition to any attempts by the Israeli regime to undermine its implementation.

The 14-point memorandum, signed remotely by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and US President Donald Trump early on Thursday, calls for a permanent end to hostilities across all fronts, including Lebanon, as well as oil export waivers, the lifting of the US naval blockade on Iran within 30 days, and the restoration of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

The agreement also includes a reconstruction and economic development plan for Iran worth at least $300 billion, the removal of US sanctions, the release of frozen Iranian assets, and a renewed Iranian commitment not to develop nuclear weapons, while negotiations continue over Tehran’s enriched uranium stockpile.

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Is Israel Blackmailing Trump Over Unreleased Epstein Files to Prevent Agreement with Iran?

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About 3 hours before I am publishing this, international journalist Pepe Escobar was interviewed by Nima Alkhorshid regarding the alleged new agreement between the U.S. and Iran, which is supposed to be signed later this week in Switzerland at the current G7 meeting.

This is a very good interview (let us know if it disappears from YouTube, as we have a copy that can be restored) to watch to counter the propaganda coming out of the U.S. media about this alleged agreement, which caused the U.S. Stock Market to soar this week, until today when new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh announced that interest rates would probably be increased later this year due to inflation, which sent the markets into a tailspin at closing today.

Escobar suggests that the Trump administration is just buying time with this agreement, going into the midterm elections later this year, and has no intention of abiding by it.

Nima Alkhorshid played a short video clip from journalist Afshin Rattansi that was published on the Russian English website, RT.com earlier this year, where he interviewed former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe about the Epstein files.

I am embedding this video below, as I am not sure much of it is available on YouTube anymore.

Ari Ben-Menashe claims that Israel contains information from the Epstein files about Donald Trump that has not been published yet, and if it was published, it would immediately bring down the Trump administration.

He claims Israel is using this to try and blackmail Trump not to give in to Iran’s demands.

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The True Origins of China’s “Social Credit System”

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Cynthia Chung

June 11, 2026

One of the most infamous criticisms of China over the past several years that has formed the basis for viewing the country as an Orwellian surveillance state and its citizens as mere drone-like-automatons is its supposed “social credit system.” But what if I were to tell you that the origin of this Orwellian “social credit system” and the fintech (financial technology) credit loan bubble crises were actually created by the same Anglo-American institutions that also created the United States’ 2008 financial crisis? Or that fintechs such as Alipay, Antpay (both created by Jack Ma) and Wepay (Tencent) are not truly Chinese creations but have in fact been managed and funded by Anglo-American institutions that overlap heavily with Project Stargate? Or that China in fact cracked down on this back in 2020 which was portrayed by western press as a global scandal when the poor Big Tech billionaire Jack Ma was taken down a few pegs?

As this four-part series will go through in great detail, the reality was that these Big Fintech companies were giving out predatory loans on the level of what sparked the 2008 financial crisis. These Big Tech companies, like Alibaba and Tencent didn’t hold skin in the game and were going to come out on top, even if mass defaults of loan payments were to occur and which were already happening. This is something that even by a western viewpoint, should not be left unchecked. Alibaba and Tencent were effectively acting as banks while holding no responsibility of a bank. It was a powder keg ready to explode, and as I will showcase in this series, was engineered to do so.

In addition to this, these Big Tech giants Alibaba and Tencent, had created their own social credit scoring and were creating rewards and punishments based off of a user’s score that would determine what discounts/deals they would receive as a consumer on their platforms (think of Amazon, Apple Pay and Google Pay on steroids), or whether the penalised user would have limited access or temporary banning etc. to these platforms, such as music or films, video games, online shopping, restaurants, loans, rental deals on apartment units etc., thus, penalties meant you didn’t have full access or the best “deals” offered on their platforms.

Basically, think of a “Ready Player One” sort of world as the ideal for Big Tech. If you can get consumers to increasingly live their “reality” in a digital world, then who controls that digital world is like a God are they not? Well, you could say in 2020, Jack Ma was on a god-like high.

Ready Player One: the premise is people are living in trailer parks, and the entire economy is video games where you receive rewards or punishments according to your behaviour and performance in video games.

Alibaba and Tencent are still global giants in Fintech, however, they are beholden to proper banking regulation now which put at an end to the predatory loaning (they no longer give out P2P loans), as well as their reward and punishment social credit system. Thus, China clamped down on Big Tech’s social credit system and deemed it illegal to create rewards and punishments.

In truth, there is a double standard that is repeatedly applied to China. In this case, criticizing China for having been too lax on these Big Tech giants, which led to the P2P (peer-to-peer fintech loans) crisis that hit a boiling point in China from 2013-2018, and then when China regulates these Big Tech giants’ actions such that predatory actions are not tolerated, the West howls that China is being authoritarian. As we will see in this series, China’s P2P crisis was an Anglo-American construct, the same construct that also triggered the 2008 financial crisis within the United States.

In this series we will go through the history of how China clamped down on Big Tech in great detail, including members of its own government that were found guilty of corruption and went to jail. Yes, you heard right, China, unlike in the United States, responded to this financial crisis sparked by predatory loans by actually sending high-ranking government officials to jail.

Meanwhile, these very institutions continue to go largely unchecked in the West with the most recent BigTech Private Credit Loan bubble ready to burst in the United States. Even the former Goldman Sachs CEO who led the bank through the 2008 financial crash, Lloyd Blankfein, told the Telegraph recently that he “smells [another] crash coming.” The question is – is this just all reckless happenstance, or is it an engineered “reboot” of the financial system where Big Tech comes out on top?

As we will see, Goldman Sachs will play a central role in this story…

One example of Big Tech attempting to enter the banking world is Libra,[1] later called Diem, a stablecoin payment system proposed by U.S. social media company Facebook, that was ultimately rejected by U.S. regulators. The plan included a private currency implemented as a cryptocurrency. The launch was originally planned to be in 2020, the same year that China shutdown Jack Ma’s Ant IPO, what was to be the largest IPO in history.

Facebook’s bold attempt to create its own digital currency, if approved, would have had as its ultimate goal the eventual right to establish its own bank for said digital currency. It would not be long before other Big Techs would follow suit, such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter X, Uber, DoorDash etc. With such a development, Big Tech would be in the position to give away risky loans, equivalent to loan sharking, with penalties if the borrower was late or defaulted on a payment.

In other words, these platforms could penalise a borrower by limiting or blocking their services to said borrower on platforms such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter X, Uber, DoorDash etc. etc. The reader should be aware that Apple Pay and Google Pay are already highly integrated into much of American consumer society.

Presently these companies do not have the right to give out loans or own their own bank, however, as we will see in this paper, fintech in the United States and Europe does have this right to give out P2P loans and own their own banks. It is only the merger of these consumer-based platforms mentioned above that are kept separate, however, massive pressure is whittling away at this flimsy barrier that is ready to break at any moment. In fact, Goldman Sachs is leading this charge into a “Ready Player One World” as we will soon see.

This had been something that was allowed to fester in China through Big Tech private credit loans such as Jack Ma’s Alipay and Antpay, along with WeChat pay (Tencent), something that had run amok earlier during their P2P crisis before the Chinese government began to clamp down, which led ultimately to the global scandal in 2020 when Jack Ma was taken down several pegs. The significance of this should be especially viewed in context to the fact that Alipay, Antpay, and Wepay are not truly Chinese companies but are funded and managed by powerful Anglo-American institutions as this paper will lay out.

This four-part series will showcase how not only are the origins of the social credit system not to be found in China, but that China had in fact blocked the attempt from Big Tech to essentially attempt a coup d’etat on its national banking/financial system. This series will go into great detail as to how this came about, as well as where the true origins of the social credit system lie. In Part III, we will discuss accusations of China using an Orwellian social credit system within their legal system, which we will see consists of a lot of hot air. Finally, in Part IV we will discuss what is China’s digital currency and how it differs from what Big Tech is attempting to bring about.

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Pax Iranica? The end of uncontested U.S. military hegemony

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Is the 'Pax Iranica' Fact or Fiction? | Algemeiner.com

By Raphael Machado | Strategic Culture Foundation | June 17, 2026

Anyone would be skeptical about the sustainability of the “peace” taking shape in the Middle East from the Memorandum of Understanding to be signed between Iran and the United States in a few days. It is plausible that it may not even be signed. And even if it is signed, considering that it involves a gradual, phased unfolding of a peace process that would last at least two months, it is hard to believe that everything will go as intended by the parties and the Pakistani mediators.

Nevertheless, in the terms that this “peace” is presented and which have been accepted by the U.S., we are facing an overwhelming victory for Iran. Even if the diplomatic process is derailed, nothing will change the fact that the U.S. accepted peace with Iran on terms unilaterally favorable to the Persians, leaving Tehran in a much stronger position than before the war began.

First of all, the U.S. failure should be seen as obvious and rests on a very simple assessment: Washington failed to achieve any strategic objective in the conflict with Iran: the “regime” was not overthrown, the nuclear program was not destroyed, military capabilities were not eliminated, support for the Axis of Resistance was not liquidated, and finally, it was not possible to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force.

The U.S. committed the most basic error of any conflict: misjudging the balance of power. And in this, naturally, the U.S. was led into error by Israel and its allies within the U.S.. From the start, reports indicate that the Pentagon opposed military action against Iran, for good reasons.

Even considering the tactical and operational dimensions, the U.S. was unable to impose itself as intended. The U.S. failed to achieve air superiority over Iran and resorted to launching missiles from outside Iranian airspace. Most times the U.S. penetrated Iranian airspace, they encountered anti-aircraft systems capable of shooting down even F35s. The U.S. also could not take advantage of its regional military bases, which were harassed and operationally neutralized by barrages of missiles and drones, complicating U.S. logistics and forcing them to use increasingly distant bases. Iran also managed to force U.S. aircraft carriers to keep their distance, with one returning to port for maintenance. Furthermore, the U.S. demonstrated that it is not yet ready to face a war in which drones play a central tactical role. But perhaps the most significant embarrassment was the fact that Iran forced the U.S. to confront its own industrial shortcomings—the U.S. expended large quantities of Tomahawks, Patriots, and other types of offensive and defensive missiles, which are produced at a trickle. The fact that U.S. missile stocks plummeted rapidly without any objective being achieved was certainly decisive for U.S. reluctance to restart the conflict.

There was also the poorly explained situation involving the destruction of several aircraft and helicopters in an alleged attempt to rescue a downed pilot (a pilot who was simply never seen again and was not even reliably identified). The fact that the ceasefire came just days after this alleged rescue operation suggests that the story is very poorly told and that perhaps that was a failed special forces operation to seize Iran’s enriched uranium.

That is precisely why reducing the issue to “control of the Strait of Hormuz” is nothing short of amateurish, since control over the Strait itself was only possible because Iran surprised the U.S. tactically through its ability to present challenges for which the U.S. had no answers and to deny the U.S. certain important military advantages on that terrain.

Naturally, control of the Strait of Hormuz had a significant impact on the conflict, making it more complex and a global issue. Carrying out attacks against Arab Gulf countries rather than just U.S. and Israeli targets followed the same logic of demonstrating power and turning the conflict into a broader, more complex problem. This stance alone forced Qatar to concede and seek a separate peace and rapprochement with Iran.

Now, if pointing out the U.S.’s inability to achieve its objectives, as well as its tactical difficulties, is not enough to demonstrate its defeat by Iran, then the imbalance of the Memorandum of Understanding, which represents a draft peace treaty, is certainly sufficient proof.

The Memorandum is scheduled to unfold in three phases. The first immediate result is the end of military actions on all fronts and the end of the U.S. naval blockade. The situation in Lebanon is already extremely uncertain due to the “Joker factor” that is Israel. But the end of the naval blockade, which is already a reality, has left the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian control, and even if Iran does not charge a “toll,” it is already charging a “service fee” to authorize ship transit.

The next phase, lasting 30 days and beginning after the Memorandum is signed, involves a U.S. promise not to increase its military presence around the Persian Gulf, the return of $12 billion in frozen assets to Iran, the immediate removal of sanctions on Iranian oil, gas, and petrochemical exports, confirmation of joint management of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran and Oman, and a U.S. promise to pressure Israel to withdraw from Lebanon. In return for all this, Iran promises not to seek to develop or acquire nuclear weapons.

And in the final phase, expected to last at least 60 days, the return of the remaining $12 billion in frozen assets, the granting of $300 billion for the reconstruction of Iran (equivalent to reparations), and the beginning of the process of removing all remaining sanctions. In return, Iran promises to agree to discuss its uranium enrichment.

In short, Iran’s obligations under this Memorandum are minimal, while the commitments undertaken by the U.S. are disproportionate. Why take on all these commitments and accept all these conditions if the U.S. “won“—as Trump says—and could “destroy Iran at any moment”?

The reality is that between an international oil crisis, low missile stockpiles, the resilience of the Iranian population, and difficulty dealing with hypersonic missiles and drones, the U.S. suddenly found itself in a potential quagmire capable of causing infinitely greater harm than any conceivable benefit. Perhaps finally aware of the mistake of starting this conflict, with very low popularity, hosting a World Cup, and worried about a myriad of internal and external crises, Trump seems eager to get rid of the “Iranian issue.”

What is proven here is that although the U.S. remains a military superpower, it is possible to defeat them under certain specific conditions and with sufficient preparation. We are not saying here that any country could defeat the U.S. in a war, but that regional powers of a certain scale, immunized against color revolutions and with years of military preparation and investment in technologies capable of negating the potential of the U.S. Navy and its air superiority, can defeat them in a defensive war.

Having recently gone through the “unipolar moment” of uncontested U.S. superiority in the post-Cold War era, whose highest expression was the rapid destruction of Saddam Hussein’s regime, clearly the world is no longer the same, which in itself is proof that we are in a phase of geopolitical transition toward multipolarity.

Weakened in the Middle East, Iran is left in control of the Strait of Hormuz. Its ability to simultaneously confront all the Arab Gulf countries has been proven, and Israel’s inability to defeat Iran without U.S. help has been as well. This opens up for the Middle East the possibility of a regional pax Iranica, though much water will yet flow under this bridge.

Israel, however, remains a problem. Driven by a messianic ideology and accustomed to being treated with privileges derived from the influence of its diaspora, Israel does not appear willing to respect the terms of the Memorandum, nor to give up trying to establish a Greater Israel by force of arms. It is the Israeli factor that makes it difficult to fully realize a peace agreement between Iran and the U.S.

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Via https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/17/pax-iranica-the-end-of-uncontested-u-s-military-hegemony/

‘Slaughter continues unabated’ in Gaza under cover of ceasefire

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Israeli +972 Magazine writes that the ceasefire announced in October 2025 now exists “only on paper” as the “slaughter continues unabated” across the Gaza Strip.

While the enclave has been pushed to the backlines of global attention, Israel has escalated its airstrikes in recent weeks. Gaza-based political analyst Thabet Al-Amour stated that Israel is “exploiting the political cover of a ceasefire” to continue operations with a “green light from the United States.”

Al-Amour noted that the military has successfully “domesticated the mediators, the international community, and the sponsors of the agreement,” who have failed to exert pressure or even reproach.

This violence is occurring as rescue infrastructure collapses. Raed Dahshan, head of Civil Defense in Gaza City, warned that the “lack of proper equipment” prevents rescuers from assisting victims who are “suffocating under the rubble, either burning or bleeding until they lose consciousness.”

Only a single fire truck remains operational in Gaza City, causing critical delays during simultaneous strikes.

Since the October ceasefire was reached, Gaza’s Government Media Office reports 997 Palestinians have been killed and 3,152 injured.

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US in talks with Palestinian Authority on expanded ties

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US in talks with PA on expanded ties as Washington pushes more concessions and seeks to redirect withheld Palestinian funds to ‘Board of Peace’

The United States is holding talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) aimed at strengthening bilateral ties and securing Ramallah’s support for President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan and efforts to expand the Abraham Accords, according to officials cited by The Times of Israel.

As part of the discussions, Washington is reportedly seeking a PA commitment to “halt efforts to internationalize the conflict with Israel” and withdraw cases filed against Israel in international legal forums. The PA, for its part, has reportedly requested that any memorandum of understanding include language calling for a halt to Israeli settlement expansion and measures to address escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

The talks have also centered on the future of more than $5 billion in Palestinian clearance revenues withheld by Israel. US officials are reportedly exploring ways to redirect a significant portion of the funds to the Board of Peace and its National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, a technocratic body intended to oversee the enclave until the PA completes a series of US- and Saudi-backed reforms. The PA, facing a deep financial crisis after more than a year without access to much of its own revenues, has reportedly agreed in principle to the arrangement in exchange for the release of at least part of the funds.

In return, the PA hopes to secure a memorandum of understanding with Washington that could pave the way for improved relations, the lifting of US sanctions, and the potential reopening of the PLO diplomatic mission in Washington. However, negotiations have slowed amid resistance from Israeli officials, particularly Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has opposed releasing any of the withheld funds and has repeatedly called for the collapse of the PA.

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Syria unwilling to attack Lebanon despite US pressure

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July 17, 2026

Damascus reportedly prepared to reconsider its position if Tel Aviv were to withdraw its occupation troops from Syria

Syrian President and former Al-Qaeda chief Ahmad al-Sharaa is “unprepared and unwilling” to launch a military offensive against Lebanon despite growing US pressure, Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported on 16 June.

KAN cited an informed Syrian source who said that Sharaa is “concerned” that an attack by Damascus against Hezbollah will be seen across the region as “serving” Israel’s interests.

This could negatively impact Damascus’s “legitimacy.”

For now, the self-appointed Syrian president is ruling out an attack against Lebanon and its resistance forces unless Israel decides to pull its forces out of Syria, the report states.

Israel has rejected withdrawal from both Syria and Lebanon.

KAN also said that Turkiye – a longtime backer of Sharaa since his days as Abu Muhammad al-Julani, founder and leader of Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front – has urged Damascus against such an incursion.

Ankara is reportedly concerned that a Syrian assault on Lebanon would “embolden” Tel Aviv and “strengthen” its position.

“Trump proposed a framework in which the Syrian military would play a central role in a future effort to disarm Hezbollah,” i24 reported on Wednesday.

Lebanese authorities reportedly felt uneasy about the idea during recent US-backed direct talks with Israeli officials, which have taken place despite Lebanon’s legal restrictions.

Additionally, Israeli authorities are reportedly concerned about the effectiveness of a Syrian attack on Hezbollah.

“Some of the arrangements currently under discussion could ultimately strengthen Hezbollah politically and militarily rather than diminish its influence,” i24 reported.

Sharaa said earlier this week that talk of a Syrian incursion into Lebanon was a “rumor.” “Syria’s approach aims to end the war in Lebanon, not to expand it or get involved,” he stressed.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on Syria to attack Hezbollah.

Iraqi resistance groups allied with Hezbollah have cautioned the Syrian government and its forces that they will act if Damascus initiates an attack on Lebanon.

Syria experienced a significant geopolitical change following the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, as Sharaa’s government aligned with Washington and engaged in discussions with Israel.

The US has largely lifted sanctions on Syria and called Damascus a “partner” in the global fight against ISIS — overlooking Sharaa’s past as an Al-Qaeda leader and earlier as deputy to ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Hezbollah fought in Syria for years with the former government, helping recapture areas from extremist groups like Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham, and others considered by the west as the “Syrian opposition.”

The Nusra Front, led by Sharaa, was rebranded into Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and ended up toppling Assad’s government in 2024.

HTS and other extremist factions with links to ISIS currently dominate what has become the new Syrian Defense Ministry and military.

Tom Barrack, US special envoy to Syria and Iraq, threatened Lebanon last year with a Syrian incursion, and said Damascus would “actively assist us in confronting and dismantling … Hezbollah.”

He also said Syria viewed Lebanon as its “beach resort” and would carry out an assault against the country unless Hezbollah is disarmed.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/syria-unwilling-unprepared-to-attack-lebanon-despite-us-pressure-report