Glenn Greenwald wants right-wing populists to understand that the CIA is not their friend.

On Sunday thousands of Cubans swarmed the streets of Havana amid ongoing blackouts, food shortages and rising prices. Increasing COVID infections have strained the island's healthcare system and put medical care at a standstill. The protests are the largest of their kind in over a decade. In turn, the government began a crackdown. More than 100 activists and journalists are reportedly in custody. One male protester was shot in his home on Wednesday during a police raid. Facebook and Twitter played a crucial role in allowing the rest of the world to witness the unrest — so of course the Cuban government has banned those platforms in the last 72 hours.

Almost unanimously, GOP lawmakers in the last few days have thrown their support behind the anti-communist protesters, including Sen Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and 2024 hopeful Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

In an interview with The Spectator, journalist Glenn Greenwald broke down why he believes 'America First' conservatives should reevaluate their support for Cuba's protests. The Intercept co-founder argues that conservatives with nationalistic tendencies should prioritize American domestic policy without embroiling themselves in foreign conflicts.

Russia's Ministry of Defense has released a video of four fighter planes escorting three US Air Force B-52H bombers over the waters of the Bering Sea on Thursday, after they were spotted heading towards the country's airspace.

According to the National Defense Management Center, Moscow detected three targets approaching the state border. Four planes - two MiG-31 and two Su-35 fighters - were scrambled to escort the American aircraft.

"The Russian fighter crews identified the aerial targets as B-52H strategic bombers of the US Air Force Global Strike Command and escorted them over the waters of the Bering Sea," the center said.

After the bombers turned around, the Russian fighters returned to their home airfield, and there was no reported violation of state borders.


The Boeing B-52 bomber, also known as the Stratofortress, is a long-range, jet-powered plane first introduced in the 1950s.

Last week, Russia's Ministry of Defense scrambled two Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets after a US Navy Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flew over the Black Sea, approaching the country's border during NATO's Sea Breeze multinational naval exercise.

U.S. Capitol Police will begin fielding military surveillance equipment as part of sweeping security upgrades as the force becomes "an intelligence-based protective agency" after the Jan. 6 attack.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently approved a Capitol Police request for eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground - Medium (PSSG-M) units. The system provides high-definition surveillance video and is enabled with night vision. The system does not include facial recognition capabilities. The Pentagon said:

"This technology will be integrated with existing USCP camera infrastructure, providing greater high definition surveillance capacity to meet steady-state mission requirements and help identify emerging threats."

The technology allowed U.S. troops fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to monitor large areas 24/7 through extremely high-resolution cameras.

Some privacy rights advocates have raised concern that Capitol Police are getting into the business of spying on Americans.

Wide-scale protests and rioting that have rocked the Caribbean nation of Cuba are, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, part of an orchestrated campaign by American officials to oust the country's socialist government.

In a statement issued on Thursday, one of Moscow's top diplomatic representatives, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, blasted American "impudence" for suggesting that the demonstrations were a result of the Cuban government's own mistakes. Instead, she described the approach a part of "yet another political staging."

"Washington's cynicism is shown by the fact that throughout the entire period of the existence of revolutionary Cuba, it purposefully pursued a strategy of strangling the country, discriminating against its people and destroying the economy. Their thinking here is simple - it has already been repeatedly deployed by Washington in different situations. But in every case, there is the same goal - sparking 'color revolutions' in response to unwanted regimes."

The approach, the official added, hinges on applying sanctions and provoking tensions by worsening the socio-economic situation in the country.

The BBC has become embroiled in a fact-checking row with demands for an apology over a presenter's claims that Libya was the first nation to carry out a state-sponsored hijacking of an airliner in the Middle East. According to the broadcaster's flagship radio show, "The Long View", the assertion was based on a hijacking incident in 1971. Counter-claims have emerged, though, pointing out that it was actually Israel which was the first ever state to carry out an act of sky piracy when, in 1954, it hijacked a Syrian civilian airliner.

The 29 June episode of The Long View was presented by Jonathan Freedland. He looked at the history of state-sponsored hijackings following a recent well-documented incident in Belarusian air space, involving a Ryanair plane en route from the Greek capital, Athens.

Wikipedia fails to reflect relevant viewpoints on hot-button topics and describes center-left establishment worldviews, its co-founder Larry Sanger said. This consensus reality is prone to nefarious manipulation by powers that be.

"There is a big nasty complex game being played behind the scenes to make the articles say what somebody wants them to say," Sanger said this week, blasting the current community culture at Wikipedia. "There are all kinds of tricks that people can play to 'win' it."

Sanger, who launched — along with Jimmy Wales — the world's premier website for reference materials, has become a vocal critic of his brainchild. He jokingly called himself "ex-founder," referring to both his criticism and Wikipedia's attempts to distance itself from his person. This week he talked about what he sees as a problematic change in the online encyclopedia to Freddie Sayers, the host of UnHerd magazine's show Lockdown TV.

Cypriot police said the Turkish coastguard fired warning shots at one of its vessels patrolling for undocumented migrants off the island's north coast on Friday, as tensions mount ahead of a visit by the Turkish president to the breakaway north.

The Cyprus government said it was preparing a protest to the United Nations over the incident, which it said was the first of its kind.

But a Turkish diplomatic source denied that either the Turkish or the Turkish Cypriot coastguard had fired on any Greek Cypriot vessel.

There was talk of a "fresh start" when Yair Lapid visited Brussels this week.

Israel's foreign minister was on a mission to "reboot" relations with Europe.

But behind his fresh facade lurked something rotten and sinister.

Lapid wasn't simply visiting to charm those EU representatives who are always impressed by smartly dressed liberals. He also paid a trip to the headquarters of NATO, a military alliance dominated by the US.

So, it looks like GloboCap isn't going to be happy until they have fomented the widespread social unrest — or de facto global civil war — that they need as a pretext to lock in the new pathologized totalitarianism and remake whatever remains of society into a global pseudo-medicalized police state, or that appears to where we're headed currently. We appear to be heading there at breakneck speed. I don't have a crystal ball or anything, but I'm expecting things to get rather ugly this Autumn, and probably even uglier in the foreseeable future.

Yes, friends, a storm is coming. It has been coming for the last 16 months. And GloboCap is steering right into it. I, and many others like me, have been tracking its relentless advance like a self-appointed International Pathologized-Totalitarian Hurricane Center (you know, like the one in Miami, except all the meteorologists are "conspiracy theorists"). We have documented all the propaganda, the lies, the manipulation of statistics, the abrogation of constitutional rights, the New Normal goon squads, the corporate censorship, and all the rest of the roll-out of the new official ideology and the totalitarian measures deployed to enforce it.

Our efforts have not been in vain, but they have not been successful enough to change the course events are now taking ... a course of events that has always been clear, a course that every totalitarian movement needs to take to get where it's going. You can't remake entire societies into quasi-totalitarian systems without civil unrest, chaos, rioting, war, or some other form of cataclysm. Brainwashing the masses is all fine and good, but, at some point, you need to goad the people who are resisting your new totalitarian "reality" into getting unruly, so you can crack down on them, and transform them into official enemies, which appears to be what is happening currently.

The White House is tying itself in knots to silence anyone questioning the mainstream Covid-19 narrative, and, whatever you think of vaccines, its latest plans are only the first step toward making thoughtcrime a reality.

The US government is done playing "good cop" with regard to the "vaccine hesitant." The Biden administration, which recently opted to send 'volunteer' vaccinators door to door in what may be the most ill-thought-out public health campaign in US history, doesn't just want to meddle with your body anymore - its plans to control "misinformation" you may send by SMS text message indicate it's intent on controlling your mind as well.

White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci is leading the crusade, blaming "Fox News or whomever" for crafting the vision of "a bunch of federal workers knocking on your door, telling you you've got to do something that you don't want to do." Fauci clarified that it wasn't government officials, but "trusted messengers who are part of the community". Noticeably, he didn't address the "doing something you don't want to do" part - a telling oversight in the minds of those who are convinced the campaign is indeed a coercive one and those who've been paying closer attention to who makes up the door-to-door vax packs.