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Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.

Netanyahu faces new threat: Collapse of Western support

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Netanyahu begins testifying in his defense against charges of corruption

ByPaul Rogers

June 17

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As domestic support for the war is ebbing away in the US, the mood in Washington is changing. Opposition to the war is growing, while support for Israel and its prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is dwindling.

A week ago, this was all reasonably obvious, but the past few days have given a sharp indication of how difficult it will be to move to negotiated settlements in the double conflicts involving Israel and Lebanon, and the US and Iran.

The recent sequence of events started with a warning from the IRGC leadership in Tehran: Israel’s continued bombing of Lebanese towns and cities, including the widespread targeting of health facilities, violated the temporary ceasefire and must stop. Instead, Netanyahu ordered more attacks, including on the Lebanese port city of Tyre, which has been subject to around 30 direct air raids by the IDF in the past three months.

As well as healthcare facilities, the IDF attacks have also been aimed at critical urban infrastructure, such as power and communications lines, water treatment plants and sewage treatment systems. The New York Times even reports the probable use by the Israelis of white phosphorus, an incendiary substance that spontaneously ignites on contact with air and is exceptionally difficult to extinguish.

The IDF is also continuing its practice of ordering mass evacuations of both urban populations and rural communities.

Yet despite the extent of the force it is using, the IDF has failed to destroy Hezbollah. There is little sign of that changing; consider that the IDF is still unable to control Hamas in Gaza despite having destroyed so many urban areas.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu has made it abundantly clear that Israel is stepping up its plans to annex the great majority of Gaza. Over 50% of the land, including most of the area previously used for intensive horticulture, has been taken over by Israel. That is now increasing to 70% of Gaza, with yet more Palestinians being forced into overcrowded camps.

Taken alongside the increasing number of illegal settlements as well as Jewish settler violence in the Occupied West Bank, and the move to control substantial parts of southern Lebanon, the immediate prospects for a peaceful outcome are minimal.

A remarkable indicator of this is that, as settler violence against Palestinians continues, Amnesty International reports on a “Great Israeli Real Estate Event” scheduled to take place in London this weekend, in which land in illegal settlements will be marketed to the Israeli diaspora in the UK.

Two substantial issues remain. The first has been glaringly obvious for over 30 months: Israel is radicalising many thousands of young Palestinians to resist the IDF, even to the extent of sacrificing their lives. That alone means Netanyahu and his government are engaged in an unwinnable war.

Then there is the second issue: overseas opposition to Israel is growing in some unexpected quarters. Germany is historically reluctant to criticise Israel in public, yet a pro-Palestinian wave of support has been seen in universities across the country.

In Britain, Labour MP Melanie Ward has brought attention to UK charities that she says have given at least £28m illegal Jewish settlements across the occupied West Bank. Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper has responded by announcing that the Charity Commission will investigate the organisations’ links to the settlements and whether they can retain their charity status.

This comes in the week that the Foreign Office announced plans for the UK to bring “together Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and Norway to deliver coordinated sanctions against networks financing and enabling settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, and firmly advises British businesses against activity in illegal Israeli settlements.”

Despite the Labour government’s antagonism to pro-Palestinian activists, The Guardian reports that some activists believe there is a “sea-change” underway in government circles, aided by the strongly pro-Palestinian stance of leading Green Party politicians, including leader Zac Polanski.

Successive Israeli governments have spent decades cultivating support through well-funded lobbies in these two key European states. That support is fraying, but what is far more significant is the shift in attitudes in the US. A trenchant piece in the influential Wall Street Journal, entitled ‘Netanyahu has lost Middle America’, concludes that whatever happens in the Gaza conflict, the loss of public US support “has been catastrophic and won’t be reversed quickly.”

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Via https://www.opendemocracy.net/netanyahu-new-threat-collapse-support-united-states-israel-iran-gaza/

How Multipolarity Forced Trump to Capitulate – For Now

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Eric Striker

When describing Donald Trump’s new Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, Foreign Policy magazine summarized the seeming end to the war as a “bigger defeat than Vietnam.”

This negation of American militarism has been felt strongest in Israel, where the Jewish state’s executors in Jerusalem and Washington/New York are throwing a fit. JD Vance, thrown in front of the cameras to own the administration’s retreat before their masters, is now openly telling the furious Jewish-American press “Trump is your [Israel] only ally left in the world.”

Has the White House had enough of Jewish domination of its policies? Is the pause in fighting Iran, which through Persian and Shia tenacity has significantly risen the bar for any continuation of hostilities, permanent?

Not so fast.

Passengers pulling the emergency break on the runaway train should not be seen as a change of guard, but rather a hard check placed on the Jewish domination of Washington DC by the combined forces of several major regional actors the American empire relies on to project power on behalf of Israel.

Forcing America to halt a war it was clearly losing and go to the negotiating table took Turkey (NATO’s second largest army), Pakistan (a nuclear power), the Gulf States (hosts of US CENTCOM with $2 trillion dollars parked in American foreign direct investment) and Egypt to pool their immense lobbying and diplomatic resources together. They offered an ultimatum: America must pause to reconsider its pursuit of Israel’s maximalist objective of conquering Iran and breaking it up into multiple rump states or they will form a new power bloc of their own to deal with this problem. As the American empire declines, multipolarity — which is bringing about the genesis of regional power blocs beyond the familiar Chinese, Iranian and Russian alliance — flexed its bicep.

Even as the administration realized it had no choice but to cave under the pressure exerted by the united front of its growing list of disgruntled associates, Trump audaciously demanded they first sign the Abraham Accords embracing Israel before any Iran negotiations began. The exasperated Muslim states responded with a resounding “No!”

This reaction, equal parts panicked and assertive, is a consequence of Iran’s unorthodox decision to focus its strategy on taxing the collaborationist Gulf regimes. The war has so far cost Gulf Cooperation Council states $200 billion dollars worth of economic damage, prompting public threats from Arab monarchs being pummeled to pull their trillions of dollars currently helping keep American tech, real estate, and bonds afloat.

In other words, the Saudis, Qataris and Emiratis pay the American empire to protect them, in addition to offering their soil for US bases and playing nice with Israel.

Yet at the height of the conflict, Iran and its allies quickly destroyed the expensive and difficult to replace THAAD network integral to the air defenses of both the Gulf and Israel. During the commotion, America’s Middle East protectorates endured blow after blow from Iranian missiles and drones, and Washington’s response was to anger another one of its client states — South Korea — by hastily moving its THAAD defense systems from East Asia to Jordan in order to better protect Israel, an act of brazen Jewish favoritism.

Working with America used to make one untouchable, but today it paints a bullseye on your country. The United Arab Emirates thought it could hedge against potential Iranian retaliation by allowing Russian billionaires to use Dubai to skirt sanctions, only to be taken aback by the revelation that Putin doesn’t care what the oligarchs think, preferring to help the IRGC in acquiring Gulf targets, including hotels in its fragile and decadent cities where US soldiers thought they were hiding.

The US’ catastrophic failure to keep up its end of the bargain is forcing Gulf planners to begin considering concessions to Iran, such as paying Tehran not to spare them. The GCC has hitched itself to the US-Israeli wagon as a realist acknowledgement that neither Israel or America can be militarily or economically defeated. The Iranians, who have limitless ability to sustain damage and are constantly innovating in the realm of warfare, have now demonstrated that this assumption is false, which will inevitably force a change in calculation from cowardly and cynical regional actors down the road.

With now a year and a half worth of Barak Ravid’s fairy tales alleging that Trump has had enough of Israel and Netanyahu indexed at Axios, nobody believes it anymore. For this reason, the administration is now forced to make a public spectacle of condemning Israel. This is geared at making America’s Muslim friends and foes — who currently have all the leverage — think Washington has the whip hand, when the reality is that Israel and the Jewish-American elite do. This was proven for the umpteenth time when Trump’s recent command for Netanyahu to “stop!” was immediately met by Israeli strikes on Iran and Lebanon.

As expected, Iran has already made good on its side of the bargain. The Strait of Hormuz has been reopened and a global economic depression has been averted. On the other hand, the major concessions from America to Iran highlighted by commentators in the MOU have stipulations deferring them pending further negotiations, like a hundred-dollar bill being pulled by a fishing line. One of the MOU’s major promises, that Israel’s war in South Lebanon is to immediately cease, continues to be flagrantly violated even at the expense of enormous IDF casualties in recent days.

As for planned talks in Switzerland to actualize the terms of the agreement, they are already failing.

It is unclear whether Benjamin Netanyahu, whose post October 7th wars have largely failed to achieve any strategic objectives, will survive electorally, but favorites to replace him like former IDF chief Eisenkot are just as bloodthirsty.

As for Trump, Witkoff and Kushner’s latest “time out” on Iran, they have so far been lulls to recalibrate with the intent of continuing. There’s no reason to believe this time is any different.

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Via https://www.unz.com/estriker/how-multipolarity-forced-trump-to-capitulate-for-now/

Iran delays Swiss meeting, links US talks to MoU implementation amid Israel’s Lebanon strikes

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A woman walks past a billboard displaying Iran’s national flag at Enqelab Square in Tehran on 14 June 2026. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV

Talks between Iran and the United States in Switzerland on a recently inked memorandum of understanding (MoU) have been postponed, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says, as Israel keeps up its attacks on Lebanon in violation of the MoU.

The talks were set to take place in Switzerland on Friday under the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding’ signed between the US and Iran a day ago, after the two sides agreed on a 14-point accord on Monday. Under the deal, Washington and Tehran have agreed on a framework to end the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate on key issues within 60 days.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Baghaei outlined the procedural roadmap for the next phase of Iran-US talks, emphasizing that “necessary consultations” are already underway through intermediaries.

“Necessary consultations are being conducted through mediators for this purpose. If the required conditions for the start of negotiations are met, an announcement will be made,” he said.

The spokesperson underscored that the MoU sets clear prerequisites for moving toward a comprehensive agreement.

“According to the text of the memorandum of understanding, the commencement of final agreement negotiations is contingent upon the initiation of the implementation of provisions outlined in clauses 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11 of the MoU and its continuation,” Baghaei emphasized.

He noted that the scheduled Iran-US talks have been delayed as its original purpose had been largely fulfilled through alternative means.

“One of the main objectives of the Switzerland meeting on Friday was the signing of the text of the memorandum on ending the imposed war,” he said.

On the sidelines of the signing ceremony, he added, it was also planned that discussions would be held regarding the arrangements for final agreement negotiations.

“Given that the signing of the memorandum of understanding was carried out digitally in the early hours of June 18, holding the meeting in Switzerland is not urgent,” Baghaei explained.

“However, we are planning to hold a meeting in the coming days,” the Iranian spokesperson said.

The 14-point “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran,” was formally signed by the presidents of both countries early on Thursday, with the text finalized and the agreement officially in effect. It was finalized on Sunday, following months of intensive negotiations mediated by Pakistan, with support from other regional countries.

Under the MoU, the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, should immediately end. Also US needs to lift its illegal naval blockade against Iran. It also provides for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping.

However, Israel, left out of the peace talks, has distanced itself from the US-Iran MoU and continues attacking residential areas in southern and eastern Lebanon.

Despite a reported ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, which comes into effect at 4:00 pm local time on Friday, new Israeli airstrikes were reported in southern Lebanon at the moment the truce was said to begin.

Israeli strikes targeted vast areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Friday, killing more than 30 people, including women and children. Defending the aggression, Hezbollah forces launched attacks on invading Israeli troops earlier in the day, killing 4 and wounding more than a dozen other Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon.

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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/19/770749/Iran-US-Switzerland-Baghaei

Israel violently bombs Lebanon minutes after US officials declare ‘new ceasefire’

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The Crade

Israel continued to brutally bombard south Lebanon on the afternoon of 19 June, following the announcement of a ceasefire which was supposed to begin at 4:00 pm.

Strikes continued on Nabatieh and several other areas after the so-called truce was meant to have started.

At least 11 towns and villages were hit, with some being struck by Israeli aerial attacks multiple times.

Earlier, a Gulf diplomat told AFP that Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a ceasefire.

“Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to halt hostilities in a deal mediated by Qatar, the US, and Iran,” the diplomat said. US officials cited by Reuters and other outlets said the same thing.

Hezbollah has yet to officially comment on the truce.

According to Lebanese media outlet Al Jadeed, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has insisted on the need for a clear US statement that includes an Israeli commitment to a ceasefire before Hezbollah announces its position.

Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported, citing an Israeli official, that Israel is “currently committed” to the ceasefire.

However, it said the army will maintain its occupation of south Lebanon. It added that Tel Aviv will respond if its occupation forces are targeted by Hezbollah.

“Any Israeli move outside the framework of a comprehensive ceasefire will be met with a response,” a Hezbollah leadership source was cited as saying by Al Jazeera.

As south Lebanon remained under heavy bombardment past 4:00 pm, drone sirens sounded in Zarit, in the Upper Galilee.

A US official cited by Reuters had said Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire starting at 4:00 pm local time.

Lebanon has been under intensified Israeli bombardment over the last 24 hours.

Tel Aviv has expressed major concerns over the new US–Iran agreement and its clause on Lebanon. It is demanding continued freedom of action to strike at will and maintain a presence of occupation forces in the country.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war minister have vowed that troops will remain in Lebanon.

The intensification of strikes in recent hours follows a Hezbollah resistance operation which killed four Israeli troops in south Lebanon overnight.

At least 47 people in Lebanon have been killed since Thursday evening. Nearly 100 others have been injured.

At least 3,980 people have been killed and 12,011 injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2 March, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

Due to the latest brutal strikes on Lebanon, Iran–US technical negotiations scheduled for Friday in Geneva were postponed.

Iran has repeatedly warned that continued Israeli violations in Lebanon will be met with harsh retaliation.

Earlier this month, Tehran launched a ballistic missile attack on Israel in response to a strike on Beirut.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-violently-bombs-lebanon-minutes-after-us-officials-declare-new-ceasefire

Mercury Fillings Raise Mercury Levels Throughout Your Body

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Dr Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • 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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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2026/06/08/dental-silver-mercury-fillings.aspx

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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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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