Barr discussed the federal response to unrest around the country.

Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that the the federal government has evidence that the radical left-wing antifa movement as well as other extremist groups have "hijacked" legitimate protests around the country to incite violence, and said certain "foreign actors" are seizing on the unrest to sow discord in the U.S.

"While many have peacefully expressed their anger and grief, others have hijacked protests to engage in lawlessness, violent rioting, arson, looting of businesses, and public property assaults on law enforcement officers and innocent people, and even the murder of a federal agent," Barr said. "We have evidence that antifa and other similar extremist groups, as well as actors of a variety of different political persuasions have been involved in instigating and participating in the violent activity.

Barr added, "we are also seeing foreign actors playing all sides to exacerbate the violence."

Why is anybody surprised to see the racial extortion, lawless rioting, and selfish looting in the streets of America's big cities today — all in the name of an unarmed black man named George Floyd, who died in police custody last week?

There is a whole political party in America today that is entirely built upon such racial exploitation.

Democratic Party leaders in Washington do not actually care about the hardships of blacks in America today. They simply want to weaponize those hardships into votes year after year after year.

Or, as one major Democrat in South Carolina famously said: "I don't want to buy the black vote. I just want to rent it for a day." That "day" being Election Day. They can all go back to their misery all the other days of the year.

Like President Trump said: "What have you got to lose?"

There are moments when an entire nation can feel a sense of collective awkwardness, if not embarrassment. That very thing happened in Canada and lasted for 21 excruciating seconds.

During a press conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood stiff and stoic, struggling to answer a reporter's question about Canada's response to US President Donald Trump's threats to send in the military to deal with the anti-police-brutality protests that have erupted all over America.

It was only a few painfully audible mouth clicks that let viewers know it was Trudeau who had frozen, and not their internet. The PM broke the pause by mouthing a few predictable platitudes about how Canadians were watching the chaos unfolding in the US "with horror", but failed to condemn the brutal crackdown by the police or Trump's calls to use the military against his own population.

Will he or won't he? Will Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make good on his vow to annex the Jordan Valley and West Bank settlements, some thirty percent of the Palestinian territories Israel occupies, starting in early July, or will he heed the warnings of world leaders and stick to the status quo, which they support: creeping, de facto annexation?

Ambassadors to Israel from the European Union (EU) and a dozen member states have warned that annexation would spell an end to the 'Two-State Solution', something they insist is not dead, and that's essential to regional "peace and security." So have EU heavyweights Angela Merkel and Boris Johnson, who even invoked the 'A-Word'. "What we are saying is that you have to have a two-state solution or else you have a kind of apartheid system," Johnson warned, in a 2017 conversation with the Jerusalem Post.

In contrast, Canada's Justin Trudeau - avowed champion of the "rules-based international order" in other situations (e.g. Russia's annexation of Crimea) — has been slow off the mark. Fifty former Canadian diplomats and Foreign Affairs ministers, leading church groups and Canadian Friends of Peace Now urged him to do so. Finally, on June 2, in the midst of a media conference on Covid-19 and American unrest, someone popped the question.

Democratic New York Rep. Eliot Engel was caught on a hot mic Tuesday appearing to admit that he only cared about speaking at a press conference on the George Floyd protests because he has a primary opponent.

Local officials held a press conference Tuesday after rioters and looters ransacked New York City on Monday night. The press conference livestream appears to show Engel asking to speak at the event before telling a local official: "If I didn't have a primary I wouldn't care."

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. asked Engel to repeat himself, and the congressman obliged. "If I didn't have a primary I wouldn't care," Engel repeated.

"Don't do that to me," Diaz responded.

Australian researchers query origin of data used for Lancet study, but stress there is no evidence drug is a safe or effective treatment


Questions have been raised by Australian infectious disease researchers about a study published in the Lancet which prompted the World Health Organization to halt global trials of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19.

The study published on Friday found Covid-19 patients who received the malaria drug were dying at higher rates and experiencing more heart-related complications than other virus patients. The large observational study analysed data from nearly 15,000 patients with Covid-19 who received the drug alone or in combination with antibiotics, comparing this data with 81,000 controls who did not receive the drug.

The findings prompted researchers from around the world to reassess their own clinical trials of the drug for preventing and treating Covid-19. The World Health Organization halted all its trials involving hydroxychloroquine due to the concerns raised in the study about its efficacy and safety. It was once viewed as among the most promising medicines to treat the virus, though no study to date has found this to be the case, and the drug can have toxic side-effects. The Australian Department of Health had been stockpiling millions of doses of the drug in case clinical trials found it proved useful.

US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox radio that the problems in the world would be easier to solve if Russia were a part of the G7. The return of Russia to the summits of the G7 format requires common sense, since half of the issues discussed at these meetings are connected with Russia.

The host asked the American leader what Russian President Vladimir Putin had done to gain his confidence and return to the club of the leading countries of the world.

"Well, he helped us with the oil industry, which is good for him, too, and we raised it and now we can save millions of jobs in Texas, North Dakota and other places in Oklahoma. Now the production there is stable. They (oil prices) fell to zero, which would have cost five million jobs. But in general it is not a question of what he did. "It's a matter of common sense," Trump said. - We have a G7, it is not there, and half of the questions are devoted to Russia. If he was there, it would be much easier to solve them. "

The "leak"- this time from the German Ministry of the Interior - shows a "secret" 93-page document, admitting basically how badly Germany reacted to the corona hoax - no, the paper doesn't call it a "hoax", but you can taste it between the lines. In essence it says the economic and social collateral damage is much, but much larger than the impact of COVID-19- in terms of lives lost due to postponed treatment for cancer, heart and other life-threatening diseases, collapse of social infrastructure, despair, suicide, joblessness - no future in sight... for many the world just collapsed like a house of cards - no perspective nothing.

The paper also refers to other corona outbreaks from earlier years, and "regular" flu epidemics, which were much more serious than the 2020 one - the latter, COVID-19, denominated by WHO as a pandemic - under orders of the mighty behind the WEF -The World Economic Forum - the infamous Davos Club, to which also Bill Gates belongs, the vaccine tsar, who stated in a February 2010 Southern California TED Talk entitled "Innovating to Zero" -

"If we are doing are a real good job [vaccinating], we can reduce the world population by 10% to 15%" (see this).

Please, for your own sake and for that of your children and children's children, keep this always in mind, when you hear Bill Gates and vaccination. The one that we are all risking to be "forced" to get - is the one against COVID-19.

Would you trust Mr. Bill Gates - for any vaccine, actually for any health advice?

But, it gets better (or actually worse), he basically makes WHO's health policies as far as vaccination goes, literally wiping out (excluding) any other medically and scientifically proven preventive and curative measures.

The Revolution Won't Be Televised because this is not a revolution. At least not yet.

Burning and/or looting Target or Macy's is a minor diversion. No one is aiming at the Pentagon (or even the shops at the Pentagon Mall). The FBI. The NY Federal Reserve. The Treasury Department. The CIA in Langley. Wall Street houses.

The real looters - the ruling class - are comfortably surveying the show on their massive 4K Bravias, sipping single malt.

This is a class war much more than a race war and should be approached as such. Yet it was hijacked from the start to unfold as a mere color revolution.

US corporate media dropped their breathless Planet Lockdown coverage like a ton of - pre-arranged? - bricks to breathlessly cover en masse the new American "revolution." Social distancing is not exactly conducive to a revolutionary spirit.

There's no question the US is mired in a convoluted civil war in progress, as serious as what happened after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King in Memphis in April 1968.

Yet massive cognitive dissonance is the norm across the full "strategy of tension" spectrum. Powerful factions pull no punches to control the narrative. No one is able to fully identify all the shadowplay intricacies and inconsistencies.

Hardcore agendas mingle: an attempt at color revolution/regime change (blowback is a bitch) interacts with the Boogaloo Bois - arguably tactical allies of Black Lives Matter - while white supremacist "accelerationists" attempt to provoke a race war.

To quote the Temptations: it's a ball of confusion.

Antifa is criminalized but the Boogaloo Bois get a pass (here is how Antifa's main conceptualizer defends his ideas). Yet another tribal war, yet another - now domestic - color revolution under the sign of divide and rule, pitting Antifa anti-fascists vs. fascist white supremacists.

Meanwhile, the policy infrastructure necessary for enacting martial law has evolved as a bipartisan project.

We are in the middle of the proverbial, total fog of war. Those defending the US Army crushing "insurrectionists" in the streets advocate at the same time a swift ending to the American empire.

Amidst so much sound and fury signifying perplexity and paralysis, we may be reaching a supreme moment of historical irony, where US homeland (in)security is being boomerang-hit not only by one of the key artifacts of its own Deep State making - a color revolution - but by combined elements of a perfect blowback trifecta: Operation Phoenix; Operation Jakarta; and Operation Gladio.

But the targets this time won't be millions across the Global South. They will be American citizens.

Things continue to spiral out of control in the U.S. as the myth of policing fails and anti-civilizational forces move into the power vacuum.

And while I'm still completely committed to the end of the U.S. empire and its imperial edicts, It's also not lost on me what's happening, who's making it happen and how they are taking advantage of this.

I warned you President Trump's near atavistic pursuit of U.S. 'enemies' in places like Syria, Iraq, Iran and Venezuela would turn the world against us. Look at the protests for George Floyd across Europe and tell me things haven't changed.

The empire is the problem. It's a lesson Justin Raimondo taught me at Antiwar.com twenty years ago. And it's only now that that idea has reached any kind of critical mass.

Are we going to dismantle the empire in an orderly fashion or a chaotic one? The animals on the streets have cast their vote. What's yours?

And while Trump has made a hash of foreign policy in so many ways, I also told you that he was smart enough to only play the crazy Ivan role up the to point of actually starting a shooting war.