An Existential Threat to and from the Intelligence Community By J.B. Shurk

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/an_existential_threat_to_and_from_the_intelligence_community.html

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification of communications and reports that implicate Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, senior officials from the Obama administration, and former heads of the Intelligence Community in a conspiracy to frame President Trump with the Russia Collusion Hoax is nothing less than earth-shattering.  

America has endured many political scandals.  The country has never had to contend with anything of this magnitude — in which a lame-duck president abused and politicized national intelligence-gathering operations in order to blame an adversarial nuclear power for an embarrassing election loss and set in motion a series of fraudulently predicated criminal investigations intended to force President Trump’s resignation from office or impeachment and removal.

As enormous as this scandal already is, it remains an ongoing criminal conspiracy.  Every time former Obama officials — including former DNI James Clapper and former CIA director John Brennan — publicly lie about material facts regarding the Russia Collusion Hoax, they are acting as co-conspirators in a plot to defraud the American people, overthrow a legitimately elected president, and cover up past criminal activity.   

Perhaps the only aspect of this story that could rival in size such treason against the United States is the corporate news media’s continued refusal to report these events accurately without fear or favor.  For many reasons, newsrooms will not do so.  Because indoctrinated and committed leftists control the American press, “journalists” lack the requisite discernment to see beyond partisan political blinders and report facts that are personally troubling.  Even worse, many “journalists” have redefined their professional role away from any responsibility for objective truth-telling and toward a kind of active agency in which they shape “truth” to advance a particular worldview.  “Journalists” love Obama.  They despise Trump.  They are happy to act as assets for former Obama administration officials pushing lies and to hide facts that are politically inconvenient.

The Eurabian Push for a Hamas State By Janet Levy

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_eurabian_push_for_a_hamas_state.html

The hostility toward Israel in Europe is matched only by the enthusiasm for establishing a Palestinian state controlled by Hamas. Leading this effort is France: President Emmanuel Macron announced on July 25 that his country would recognize a Palestinian state later this year. Knesset member Dan Illouz rightly opposed such a state as “a gift to the terrorists of October 7.”

Four days later, at a U.N. conference, France and Saudi Arabia led the New York Declaration, aiming for a “tangible, time-bound and irreversible” step toward the creation of Palestine. The 26-page document, a study in mendacious one-sidedness, is the latest sign of Europe’s anti-Israel sentiment, which has been prevalent since the founding of the Jewish state.

On the same day, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the UK too will officially recognize the Palestinian state in September. More than 90 countries, including those in the EU and the Arab League, and many U.N. member states, support the declaration.

Writer Michael Snyder warns that this is the “biggest international push for the establishment of a Palestinian state.” The new initiative, he says, could spread quietly, and by September, the recognition of Palestine might become a reality. Unless the world wakes up now to the danger of an openly jihadist and terrorist regime, it could be too late.

In the declaration, all references to Israel are accusatory. But Hamas is never once referred to as a terrorist group, though its charter calls for the killing of Jews everywhere and the establishment of a worldwide Islamic government through jihad. Nor is there any mention of Hamas using Gazans as human shields, firing rockets from schools, hospitals, and mosques, and stealing aid—some of which comes from Israel!—to sell it to Palestinians at exorbitant prices.

“Palestine” Invades the U.K. by Rafael Medoff

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/383351/palestine-invades-the-u-k/

 A recent chance encounter in London’s Heathrow Airport offered a troubling glimpse of the extent to which anti-Israel hate is penetrating youth culture in the United Kingdom.

    The encounter in question was not with a person, but rather a newspaper—the latest issue of The Skinny. Distributed free to the more than 200,000 travelers who pass through Heathrow daily—and many others, elsewhere—The Skinny is the second largest magazine of culture and listings in the United Kingdom. Its format and radicalism—political as well as cultural—are reminiscent of The Village Voice.

    The anti-Israel trend in the UK music scene has been in the news in recent weeks. The rappers Kneecap and Bobby Vylan stirred controversy at England’s Glastonbury Festival by leading the crowd in chants of “Free Palestine” and “Death to the IDF.” The new issue of The Skinny makes clear that those ugly appeals for violence were far from isolated phenomena in the UK.

    The August edition features a two-page spread about “Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine,” which is billed as “a four-day mini-festival of theatre, dance, comedy, food, storytelling, music and poetry created by Palestinians.” The reviewer emphasizes that “each piece [of the festival] is unapologetically political” and promotes “Palestinian resistance” against “Zionist occupation and genocide.” The festival’s approach of “art as politics” is urgently needed “in a moment where international conversations on Palestine are policed, sanctioned, [and] sanitized by mainstream institutions,”  the reviewer asserts.

ANTONY BLINKEN HAS NOTHING TO TEACH US EXCEPT TO DO THE OPPOSITE: ERIC LEVINE

 Original column

Americans are legitimately outraged by the cover-up of President Biden’s cognitive infirmities.  We still do not know who actually was running the country.  However, after reading former Secretary of State, Antony Blinken’s recent op ed in the Wall Street Journal, Recognizing a Palestinian State Is a Rebuke to Hamas, we can only hope that an infirm President Biden — incoherence, incapacities, and all — called the shots.  Blinken’s essay is a delusion, predicated on fallacy, based on a fantasy. 

Everyone should remember that during his tenure as America’s leading diplomat, Blinken got absolutely everything wrong.  From the catastrophic surrender in Afghanistan, to the appeasement of Iran, the alienation of Saudi Arabia, the attempted rehabilitation of Nicolas Maduro, the pathetic response to Putin’s preparation for and invasion of Ukraine, the opening of America’s southern border to any thug, terrorist, or human trafficker willing to make the trip, and the slow motion betrayal of Israel (just to name a few), Blinken’s State Department left the world a far more dangerous place than the one it inherited. 

Yet, despite his unblemished history of utter incompetence and ineptitude, he felt the need to “educate” us on how best to foster the creation of a Palestinian State and create an “enduring, peaceful, and secure coexistence” between Israelis and Palestinians.  His prescription for peace only makes sense if one ignores history and reality. 

Blinken takes issue with the decision by France, the U.K., Canada, and Australia to unilaterally recognize a State of Palestine. He claims the establishment of Palestine should be “conditions based.”  Unfortunately, the conditions he envisions make his proposal indistinguishable from that of our allies.  Blinken’s plan only delays the day the world, with American support, establishes a terrorist Palestinian State. 

UN Admits 95% of its Gaza Aid Trucks Were “Intercepted”Daniel Greenfield

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/

Over the past few weeks, the UN, the EU, the media and Hamas banded together to demand that aid deliveries shift back from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to the United Nations. The campaign played out with Hamas kidnapping, torturing and killing employees of the U.S. aid group, while the media spread false claims that Israel was using GHF distribution sites as ‘death traps’ for killing Gazans, and world leaders demanded that the UN be put back in charge of aid.

Back when the UN had been in charge it had faked its own famine by refusing to deliver food and letting it pile up instead. Since then the UN’s food aid has kept on piling up even while GHF, an American Christian aid group, has managed to deliver millions of meals to Gaza residents, despite being smeared by the media as “controversial” for feeding those whom the UN wouldn’t.

Whom was the UN actually delivering aid to back when it even bothered trying to deliver it?

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’.

Much of the ‘aid’ being brought in by the UN and its allies, including the UN’s WFP, UNICEF, the International Red Cross, the International Medical Corps and the World Central Kitchen, whose founder Jose Andres, has been constantly attacking Israel in the media, was ‘intercepted’.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which has been front and center in the media, crying for more money and denouncing Trump and Israel, only successfully delivered 1,864 pallets of aid since May while losing 29,673 pallets or 93% of it to “interceptions”.

The UN’s WFP recently claimed that it has run out of food stocks and needs $265 million for just the next 6 months to feed Gaza. Where did its food stocks go?

Certainly not to aid stations.

The Press Is Lying About D.C. Crime

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/08/13/the-press-is-lying-about-d-c-crime/

We’ve come to expect that no matter what President Donald Trump says or does these days, the mainstream press will rush out to say he’s wrong. So, we weren’t the least bit surprised when, after Trump said crime in the nation’s capital is out of control and called in the National Guard, news outlets immediately dismissed his claims.

But who is doing the lying here?

Crime in D.C. “is getting worse, not getting better,” Trump said. Nonsense came the chorus of press reports, with headlines such as:

“Fact check: Violent crime in DC has fallen in 2024 and 2025 after a 2023 spike” said CNN.
“Trump Takes Control of D.C. Police, Citing ‘Bloodthirsty Criminals.’ But Crime Is Down.” said the New York Times
“FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime” said AP

The implicit message is that Trump is making up a crime problem to flex his authoritarian muscles.

These and countless other stories all cite the same set of police department statistics showing the rate of violent crime in D.C. on the downtrend.

So, case closed, right?

Not so fast. Just a few weeks ago, the local NBC affiliate reported that:

A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district.

The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May … Pulliam — the former commander of the 3rd District that patrols Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights — was placed on leave with pay and told he was under investigation for questionable changes to crime data, five law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told News4.

Trump Was Right the First Time: Fire Intel’s CEO by Gordon G. Chang

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21828/fire-intel-ceo-tan

Here is a suggestion: Instruct the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Tan. It is time to establish accountability in corporate America when it comes to the People’s Republic of China.

The sales were illegal under U.S. law — the university was added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List in 2015 — and Cadence in late July pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit export control violations. Additionally, the company agreed to pay a fine of more than $140 million.

To establish accountability, the Justice Department must investigate Tan’s role in Cadence’s long series of sales to the Chinese military.

“[S]omeone operating at his level and who engaged with Chinese military-affiliated businesses cannot be a reliable partner to the U.S. … So long as Tan remains as CEO of Intel, the U.S. government can never do substantial business with that firm because the risk of compromise is too great.” — Brandon Weichert, senior national security editor of The National Interest, to Gatestone, August 2025.

President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet met Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel, on August 11.

“The meeting was a very interesting one,” Trump posted on Truth Social immediately afterwards. “His success and rise is an amazing story. Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are going to spend time together, and bring suggestions to me during the next week.”

Here is a suggestion: Instruct the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Tan. It is time to establish accountability in corporate America when it comes to the People’s Republic of China.

First, the good news.

Tan can save the ailing American chipmaker.

He has the right vision for Intel, is extremely capable, and has the strength to take on the chairman of the company’s board of directors, who wants to implement a misguided restructuring.

Why Is Reuters Carrying Water for Hamas? Media organizations said there is ‘no evidence’ of systemic aid theft by Hamas. That reporting went viral. But it isn’t true.By Jonas Du

https://www.thefp.com/p/why-is-reuters-carrying-water-for-hamas?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

When it comes to the war in Gaza, how is it that the legacy media always defers to the narrative that benefits Hamas? A recent Reuters story illuminates the problem.

Last month, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) produced an internal analysis tracking reports of waste, fraud, and abuse of humanitarian aid in Gaza. 

According to that report, between October 2023 and May 2025, USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance received 156 notifications of “fraud, waste, and abuse notifications” from its NGO partners in Gaza, amounting to a loss of more than $4.6 million. The key finding was that “for all 156 incidents, partners did not provide any information in their incident reports alleging SG [sanctioned group] or FTO [foreign terrorist organization] involvement,” according to a slideshow of the findings obtained by The Free Press.

But when the analysis was leaked to legacy news organizations, they reported something completely different. 

In late July, first Reuters and then CNN reported that the analysis “found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.” ABC later reported that USAID “failed to find any evidence” that Hamas “engaged in widespread diversion of assistance.” Those news organizations didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

There is a world of difference between “notifications” of aid misuse and actual misuse.

Two sources familiar with USAID and its analysis confirmed that the partners’ failure to report terrorist involvement does not mean there is “no evidence” of theft by Hamas. “The report appears to be wholly reliant on self-reporting by UN agencies and NGOs who are extremely reticent to report Hamas interference out of fear of violent retribution by Hamas,” a senior U.S. official familiar with the USAID report told The Free Press.

When the Reuters story was published, “nobody at the highest levels of the USAID administration had seen the report,” said a senior official at the State Department, which oversees USAID. “It was deliberately and intentionally manufactured. . . and distributed to plant a deliberate false narrative.”

Worse yet, Hamas used Reuters’ framing to fuel accusations of starvation and genocide against the U.S. and Israel. Allegations of theft “were recently refuted by an internal investigation by the United States Agency for International Development, which confirmed the absence of any reports or data indicating the theft of aid by Hamas,” said Izzat al-Rishq, a founding member of Hamas’s politburo, on August 1. “We strongly condemn U.S. President Trump’s reiteration of Israeli allegations and lies accusing Hamas of stealing and selling humanitarian aid in Gaza.”

Australia Recognizes Palestine After Israeli Hostages Revealed to Be Starving, Abused Catherine Salgado

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/11/australia-recognizes-palestine-after-israeli-hostages-revealed-to-be-starving-abused-n4942600

The government of Australia waited until after videos had been released showing how horrifically Hamas is abusing Israeli hostages, and after former hostages affirmed that not a single Gazan intervened to help any hostages (quite the opposite), to recognize a state of Palestine.

Evyatar David’s and Rom Broslavsky’s families must be heartbroken seeing how little Western governments care about their sons ever returning home, how all the empathy is for the jihadi captors. Not only has a state of Palestine never existed, but it should never exist. Establishing one would be a marvelous reward for terrorism. Don’t believe me, believe the Hamas official who proudly said that the reason countries are recognizing Palestine is directly due to the horrific massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Israel’s only option to end the decades of Jihad is to take back the Gaza Strip, which they had to begin with, and try to deport as many so-called Palestinians as possible.

After all, those Muslims who have called themselves Palestinians since the 1960s are a conglomeration of Arabs and other Muslims from different nations. Allowing them to move to Gaza only created catastrophe and tragedy. Time to send as many of them back as possible. Donald Trump suggested this plan earlier this year, and it was a very good plan. It makes even more sense now that multiple nations, with Australia as the latest antisemitic name on the list, are trying to end the war in Hamas’s favor by demanding recognition of a Palestinian state (which, incidentally, was already created a century ago — it is called Jordan, only the Jordanians don’t want the destructive “Palestinians” back). 

Jonathan Alpert Therapy’s Identity Politics Problem The field has embraced left-wing racialism.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/therapy-psychology-wokeness-identity-politics

Psychotherapy used to be a refuge from politics, but it’s become another front in the culture war. Therapists once helped people face reality. Today, more and more, they urge patients to interpret it through a hierarchy of oppression.

As a psychotherapist with more than two decades of experience, I have observed this shift firsthand. Hundreds of patients have come to me after being frustrated or even harmed by previous therapists, who encouraged them to interpret their struggles through the lens of identity politics.

A black man, for example, came to me after a failed round of therapy with another provider. He wasn’t just anxious; he was disillusioned. “I went in for help managing anxiety,” he said. “But the therapist kept steering the conversation back to racism, even though I never brought it up. I left feeling like I was being treated as a black person first, and a human being second.”

A gay man told a similar story. “I wanted help managing stress at work,” he said. “But every session focused on supposed shame over being gay, even though that wasn’t why I was there. I felt pushed into a narrative that didn’t fit me.”

Graduate programs are no longer producing healers, but political activists with therapy licenses. Instead of teaching students to treat anxiety, depression, or relationship issues using evidence-based methods, many programs now encourage trainees to develop “critical consciousness.” That means guiding clients to interpret their distress through the lens of systemic oppression, rather than addressing individual agency, patterns, or choices.