By Murtaza Hussain – Drop Site News

Cisco Systems is one of the most consequential—yet least visible—corporations in Silicon Valley. The San Jose-based networking giant, with a market capitalization in excess of $270 billion and annual revenue of $56.7 billion in 2025, manufactures the routers, switches, firewalls, and communications platforms that run the internet’s infrastructure, as well as many of its worldwide corporate, government, and military networks. Continue reading “Leaked Documents Show Cisco Systems’ Deep Relationship with Israeli Security State”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The Pentagon is considering renaming the war with Iran from “Operation Epic Fury” to “Operation Sledgehammer” if President Trump decides to restart the full-scale bombing campaign against Iran, NBC News reported on Tuesday. Continue reading “Pentagon Planning To Rename Iran War ‘Operation Sledgehammer’ If US Restarts Bombing Campaign”

By Mohamed Gabobe – Drop Site News

MOGADISHU, Somalia—Amid ongoing disruptions to maritime shipping in the Middle East due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Somali pirates are demanding a $10 million ransom for the release of an oil tanker recently hijacked off the coast of Yemen, multiple security officials tell Drop Site News. Continue reading “Somali Pirates Demand $10M Ransom for Oil Tanker Owned by Emirati Company”

By Tyler Derden – Zerohedge

While many warn that artificial intelligence itself will displace American workers, far less attention is paid to the fact that the very companies building AI are already replacing American employees with cheaper foreign labor. In many cases, though, the immediate threat to American workers is not the technology itself, but the hiring practices of the firms developing it.

Continue reading “The Hidden Cost To The American Worker From The AI Boom”

By Naqaa Hamed – Drop Site News

DEIR AMMAR, Occupied West Bank—Mustafa Badaha drove along the edge of his land, past rows of olive trees he could no longer access. A red string put up by Israeli settlers demarcated the border of what was stolen from him in Deir Ammar, a Palestinian town around 17 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The settlers had recently established a new outpost in the area named Ramataim Zofim. Continue reading “Palestinians Lose More Land After Israel Secretly Approves a Record Number of Settlements in the West Bank”

By Jason Ditz – Antiwar.com

A growing number of Israeli strikes on Lebanon has led to death tolls once again on the rise, despite what is notionally a ceasefire in place between the two countries. The UNIFIL peacekeepers documented 1,296 trajectories of projectiles fired by Israeli forces in the past 72 hours. Continue reading “UN Peacekeepers Report 1,296 Israeli Strikes in Three Days in Lebanon Despite ‘Ceasefire’”

By Tyler Derden – Zerohedge

With roughly half of planned U.S. data center buildouts this year expected to be delayed or canceled amid mounting power constraints and local opposition, tech bros are increasingly looking beyond Earth and toward space for the next phase of compute expansion. Continue reading “SpaceX, Google Eye Orbital Data Centers As Small-Town Resistance Grows”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the United Arab Emirates has carried out military strikes against Iran, and its sources presented the Gulf Arab state as an active combatant in the war, backing up Tehran’s allegations against Abu Dhabi. Continue reading “Report: UAE Has Secretly Launched Attacks Against Iran”

By Tyler Derden – Zerohedge

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a 60 Minutes interview which aired Sunday that President Trump still wants Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium removed. Trump on Monday warned that the Iran ceasefire is on ‘massive life support’. Continue reading “Netanyahu Insists Iran War To Continue Until Uranium Is ‘Physically’ Removed”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

Israeli attacks in Gaza since the US-backed ceasefire deal signed in October 2025 have killed more than 850 Palestinians, as the IDF has constantly violated the agreement without facing any consequences or criticism from the Trump administration. Continue reading “Israeli Military Has Killed More Than 850 Palestinians in Gaza Since So-Called Ceasefire Deal Was Signed”

By Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim – Drop Site News

Today, shipping companies are paying cryptocurrency tolls to Tehran for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, as the Iranian government seeks to shield payments from seizure by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Roughly $8 billion flowed through Iran’s cryptocurrency exchanges last year, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) moves billions more through foreign exchanges like Binance, where Chinese firms can secretly pay for Iranian oil without fear of U.S. retaliation. Continue reading “Epstein Advised U.S. Treasury on Crypto During Obama’s Iran Sanctions Push”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to secure US aid for Israel indefinitely by retooling our “special relationship” from one of “aid” to a supposed “partnership.” Continue reading “Netanyahu Working to Cement U.S. Aid to Israel Through ‘Partnership’”

By Kit Klarenberg – The Grayzone

A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead.

Continue reading “Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The US bombed Iranian ports on Thursday, an attack that will likely plunge the region back into full-scale war.

Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin first reported that the US was behind strikes on a port in Iran’s Qeshm island in the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, and a naval target in Minab, where the US bombed an elementary school on February 28, an attack that killed 120 children. Continue reading “US Bombs Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas”

By Aaron Maté – The Grayzone

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The OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018.

Continue reading “‘Highly Protected’: OPCW confirms it buried critical evidence in Syria chemical weapons probe”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

The DOJ has indicted a Jewish group accused of organizing a “large-scale, decade-long insider trading scheme that netted tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits.” Continue reading “DOJ Indicts Jewish Group for ‘Large-Scale, Decade-Long Insider Trading Scheme’”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

US Central Command said on Wednesday that its forces attacked and disabled an Iranian-flagged oil tanker, the M/T Hasna, in the Gulf of Oman, which it claimed was attempting to bypass the US blockade of Iranian ports. Continue reading “US CENTCOM Says It Attacked and Disabled an Iranian Oil Tanker in the Gulf of Oman”

By Tyler Derden – Zerohedge

U.S. authorities are investigating more than $2.6 billion in oil futures shorts that landed within minutes of major announcements tied to the 2026 U.S.-Iran conflict. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has joined the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a widening inquiry into potential misuse of material non-public information in one of the most liquid and geopolitically sensitive commodity markets on earth, ABC News reports.

Continue reading “DOJ, CTFC Investigating $2.6 Billion In Suspicious Iran War Oil Trades”

By Jason Ditz – Antiwar.com

Overnight, the Lebanese town of Habboush was targeted in Israeli airstrikes, causing significant damage. In the morning, Israeli artillery was actively shelling the town, causing even more destruction in residential and commercial parts of town. Continue reading “Israel Confirms 500 Strikes Against Lebanon Since ‘Ceasefire’ Went Into Effect”